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From: jgreely@kazoo.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
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Subject: Re: A counter-example for those who would eliminate PC binaries (long)
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Date: 2 Jul 88 16:47:13 GMT
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(I can't resist)

In article <172@xochitl.UUCP> bonzo@xochitl.UUCP (Matt Armstrong) writes:
>Another point to make is that not everyone here can afford compilers for their
>respective computers. (Think about this one: If someone ports GNU C to the PC
>of any other micro, how will it be distributed?)

In the specific case of the IBM PC, you could bootstrap through debug,
using simplified assembly code. (half :-))
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J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu)
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