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From: fst@gtenmc.UUCP (Fariborz "Skip" Tavakkolian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B1/7300 Development set wanted
Keywords: 3B1, 7300, UNIX-PC, Development set
Message-ID: <356@gtenmc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 89 02:09:01 GMT
References: <4309@rtech.rtech.com> <399@quad.uucp> <10129@zodiac.ADS.COM> <401@quad.uucp>
Reply-To: fst@gtenmc.UUCP (Fariborz Skip Tavakkolian)
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Organization: GTE Telecom, Inc.  Bothell, WA
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In article <401@quad.uucp> dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg) writes:
>In article <10129@zodiac.ADS.COM> neville@hebron.ADS.COM (Neville Newman) writes:
>:In article <399@quad.uucp> dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg) writes:
>:>In article <4309@rtech.rtech.com> bruces@daneel.rtech.com (Bruce Stewart) writes:
>:>>I'm looking for a source for the development set for the unix-pc.
>:>
>:>You're not alone in this.
>:
>:Now i get to ask - why?  Wouldn't it be better in the long run to
>:get of couple of compiler writers to modify gas (GNU Assembler)
>:and family to generate/understand Unix-PC object files?
>
>Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I avoid all GNU software on
>principle - I don't agree with Stallman's ideas.  Besides, there's a
>lot more to the development set than just a compiler and assembler.
>
>-- 
>David Sandberg             dts@quad.uucp or ..uunet!rosevax!sialis!quad!dts
>"What's the difference between 12-bit and 16-bit?  A lot more than 4 bits!"


If it makes you feel any better, after getting the sources to the GNU software,
pay a big chunk of change to the homeless (instead of the licensing fees);
Then get the bug fixes for any such software only once a year, and 
each year send a percentage of the original amount to the homeless
(instead of your annual support fee).  ;-)

I agree that a compiler and assembler does not make a development set,
and there is a lot more to the the GNU software; there is a ksh/sh replacement
shell (bash), a yacc replacement (bison), an AWK replacement (gawk), and
I am sure you've heard of GNU Emacs, and as they say in the 
movies - many more...

I guess we all vote based on the economics of the situation, and
since I benefit from the GNU approach, I have to believe it is right.

Skip

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