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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: ctex documentation
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Date: Sun, 6-Sep-87 20:38:19 EDT
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> The problem comes about when Uncle Homer buys a System V box.  pc is
> standard with BSD variants, but not with System V.

This is a gross oversimplification.  A Pascal compiler, "pc", comes on 4BSD
distributions from Berkeley.  It does not, and did not, come on any UNIX
distribution from AT&T.  This does not mean that any system running a UNIX with
BSD stuff in it has a Pascal compiler; the vendor may not have ported "pc", or
may not use any of the compilers from 4BSD, or may offer the Pascal compiler as
an unbundled product.  Nor does it mean that systems not running UNIXes with
BSD stuff in them don't have Pascal compilers; AT&T has one for the 3B2 (but I
don't know if they provide the source to people who wish to port it) and plenty
of other boxes running UNIX variants derived primarily from System V source
have them as well.

It is almost certainly the case that more UNIX boxes include C compilers than
include Pascal compilers, but this has little to do with the UNIX variant
provided with those boxes.
	Guy Harris
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