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Subject: Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC  Here's a good rating comparision
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:02:11 -0400
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Vic wrote:
> > > this is a ridiculous statement. the majority of UNIXes is based on GCC,

> like? please tell me...I'm really curious. The compiler makers I know
> are Zortech, Borland, Microsoft ,FSF + maybe some others I don't know
> about (maybe I'm just ignorant, right?) but FSF (GCC) is the only one I
> know that makes a compiler for so many platforms (OH, OK, guys like IBM
> might make compilers for their own workstations or systems too)

For UNIX?  Intel for one (they also make a drop in code generator for
Visual C++).  Of course, my comments were to point out that the majority
of UNIXes do not run on X86 platforms.  Both UNIXWARE and SOLARIS market
their own compiler

> so please tell me, who is this company that makes a better compiler for
> so many "not so cheap PC based UNIXes" ?? I thought GCC was a standard
> in the unix world...

It's a standard for people who don't care to pay for a better one.
But UNIX (except for FREEBSD and LINUX perhaps) isn't BASED on GCC.
My definition of based is what system software is written in, not
what some random user might put on his machine.