Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/11/23/21:00:09
In article <36593C64 DOT 4F3BFD67 AT stud DOT ntnu DOT no>, Robin Holtet
<holtet AT stud DOT ntnu DOT no> wrote:
> samuel wrote:
> >
> > Jeramie Hicks wrote:
> > >
> > > A lot of people come on here and complain about DJGPP; about what it
> > > doesn't support, or how it's hard to install, or why it doesn't work.
> > > I, on the other hand, think something is never said enough:
> > > Thank you for DJGPP.
> > > Thank you for Allegro.
> > > DOS will never die. I'm not gonna let it.
> > > - Hicks
> > I second that!
> > Thank you programmers of DJGPP
> > Samuel Igwe
> Me too!!!
> I totally agree!
> Robin Holtet Holtermannsveien 29 7031 Trondheim
<soapbox>
While I wholeheartedly agree that the developers of DJGPP
deserve a huge amount of credit for all of its many wonders
I think that the Free Software Foundation/Open Source people
should share the glory. If it wasn't for all the fine GNU
tools (and the source for gcc) DJGPP would have ended up
as just another C/C++ compiler (I realise this may sound
like heresy but...) . Much kudos to DJ Delorie for allowing
things to work so well under DOS as this turns a mere filesystem
like DOS into a *real* operating system (within limits)
so that I am actually using Linux much less recently.
On a related note, I'm glad to read some interview
quotes from Linus Torvalds that he acknowledges the work
by Richard Stallman and FSF. The Linux kernel is "only"
a key part of an operating system made possible by
portable, mature and well-maintained tools (predominantly
GNU).
</soapbox>
Bernard
[If you disagree with any of the above *please* don't take
my DJGPP away from me :-) ]
--
Bernard P. Murray, PhD
Dept. Cell. Mol. Pharmacol., UCSF, San Francisco, USA
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