Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!orchid!jlee4
From: jlee4@orchid.waterloo.edu (jlee4)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++
Subject: Re: Porting gcc and g++ to the Macintosh
Message-ID: <49@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: 25 May 89 17:45:47 GMT
References: <833@inesc.UUCP> <8905201657.AA00205@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <106252@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <106252@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> kevin@sun.UUCP (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child}) writes:
>In article <8905201657.AA00205@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> rms@AI.MIT.EDU writes:
>>I hope no one ports GCC to the Macintosh; but in any case, we will not
>>propagate or support such a port.  We are boycotting the Macintosh
>
[Stuff deleted]
>However, wouldn't it make sense to move all the FSF stuff over and show
>them the error of their ways by example?  Picture the billions of users
>out there ready to help you show Apple up...
>
>	l & h,
>	kev
>
>Kevin Sheehan
>Sun Microsystems

I agree with Kevin.  The MPW development system is known
for being a tad on the slow side :-), if we develop tools superior
to MPW, programmers would surely use them and FSF slogans
could be displayed when the tools were invoked. 

The only reason I bought my Mac II was the better text and
graphics display than either IBM's or Amiga's (though either one
with a Multisync-type monitor is close but not close enough).

My heart and spirit are with you RMS, even though my body is stuck
is rain-drenched Waterloo.

Johnny Lee
jlee4@orchid.waterloo.edu
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