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From: | Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM> |
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Date: | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:21:37 GMT |
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On 16 Feb 2000 17:28:06 GMT, alain AT qnx DOT com (Alain Magloire) wrote: >Andrew Jones (luminous-is AT home DOT com) wrote: >: GCC was *written* for a popular OS. There's a subtle difference. And the >: reason that so many people use DJGPP for these projects is that they don't >: have/don't want to spend hundreds (or thousands) on a C compiler. DJGPP is >: free. Freedom is wonderful, but doesn't make a product great by default. >: Although I do agree that GCC, and hence DJGPP *are* >: great. :) > >May I know to which OS that you claim "gcc was *written*" for ? GNU OS. GNU's not UNIX. The current GNU OS runs on Linus Torvalds's kernel Linux (and is sold as Red Hat Linux etc.), but the GNU project is working on HURD (a wrapper on the Mach kernel). -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/
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