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From: | Brian Osman <osmanb AT rpi DOT edu> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: free OS that can run djgpp |
Date: | Tue, 04 Mar 1997 12:15:40 -0500 |
Organization: | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA |
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Message-ID: | <331C58BC.756A@rpi.edu> |
References: | <199703041455 DOT PAA18847 AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > On 3 Mar 1997 15:47:36 GMT, "LSC" <liausc AT pl DOT jaring DOT my> wrote: > > > > Don't you have MS-DOS on your computer? MS-DOS is all that is needed to run > > DJGPP. Win95 also runs DJGPP just fine from within a DOS box. In fact, that's > > what I use for most of my DOS programming with DJGPP. > > He means a 'free' OS. MSDOS isn't free. > He may want to look at Caldera's home page: > > http://www.caldera.com/ > > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de I think LSCs point is that DJGPP will run fine under the OS he already has installed (Win95) so it's a little silly to go and get OpenDOS just to program. "Free" seems completely irrelevant if you aready own something that does the job. Brian
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