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From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: GNU software and the IRIS
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Date: 10 Jan 91 08:35:41 GMT
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In-Reply-To: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com's message of 7 Jan 91 02:57:49 GMT
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   Date: 7 Jan 91 02:57:49 GMT
   From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)

   In article <DC923761BB3F00167B@dino.squibb.com>, BRUC@DINO.SQUIBB.COM ("Bob Bruccoleri  683-6165", 609) writes:

   > 	Thankfully, the Iris user community and individuals at SGI are
   > working to make the GNU programs work on our workstations. But it would
   > be better if corporate SGI got more involved with the GNU project. 

   [And Schryver explains that SGI isn't getting paid to support it,
    and so (reasonably) puts GNU stuff on the back burner at best].

You can buy commercial support for the GNU software for a variety of
platforms, including the SGI IRIS, from Cygnus Support.  

We offer commercial support for Emacs, GNU C, GNU C++, etc.  To avoid
being too blatently commercial, I'll stop here and let you write if
you'd like more information.