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From: rfg@nsc.nsc.com (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: do it yourself project?
Message-ID: <7856@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 17 Nov 88 00:31:52 GMT
References: <1268@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <2644@sultra.UUCP> <7465@daver.UUCP>
Reply-To: rfg@nsc.nsc.com.UUCP (Ron Guilmette)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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In article <7465@daver.UUCP> dlr@daver.UUCP (Dave Rand) writes:
>A few last questions - do people _really_ want a full Unix environment?
>How much can you afford for this? Do you just want a C compiler, assembler,
>debugger, etc. that runs on (and for) a 32k processor? How much can
>you afford for this? (These are not idle questions...)

Dear Dave,

Some of these are idle questions!  I can give you a FREE (well, copylefted)
C compiler for the 32000's TODAY!  It's called GNU C.  I also have GNU C++,
and the GNU assembler (GAS) has already been rehosted & retargeted for the
32000.  GAS needs more work though.  Any volunteers?  I'll gladly send you
all the new GAS code I have and let anybody have a whack at it.  I would
be working on it myself, but I don't have the time.

If you want to help test & fix GAS/32000, I suggest that you have access to
a Sequent-Balance, Encore-Multimax, or some other BSD (i.e. a.out) based
32000 system for you testing base.

P.S.  Also available ios the GNU loader GLD.  Also FREE (and copylefted).
many other binary utilities are also available (such as size, strip, etc.,
and many general utilities such as gmake, gnews, gdiff, gawk, ggrep). Oh
yes! And GNU Emacs of course.

-- 
Ron Guilmette
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