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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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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