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From: kirkenda@psu-cs.UUCP (Steve Kirkendall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: os9 and Unix
Message-ID: <1143@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 20:53:37 GMT
References: <709@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> <421@hwee.UUCP> <379@rwing.UUCP> <360@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Reply-To: kirkenda@psu-cs.UUCP (Steve Kirkendall)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
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In article <360@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> ocker@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Wolfgang Ocker) writes:
> In article <379@rwing.UUCP> bdw@rwing.UUCP (Brian Wright) writes:
> >
> >It's already happened.  The Tandy Color Computer line is the first and ONLY
> >micro to offer OS-9 at a low price. 
>And the ST? OS-9/68000 for this machine isn't expensive, too! 

Yes it is.  Sure, you can get a minimal system ("Personal OS9") for $150, but
if you want the C compiler you have to pay through the nose: $500 for just the
compiler, or $600 for the compiler and extra utilities such as `make`.

In the ST world, we're used to paying about $150 for a C compiler.  The switch
to OS9 is *painful*.


BTW, has anybody managed to port the GNU C compiler to OS9?  Or, failing that,
how about a TOS emulator so we can use the less expensive ST compilers?
             ["Short .sigs are best" -- Steve Kirkendall]