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> From: "AndrewJ" <luminous-is AT home DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 18:30:26 GMT
> 
> I can understand the point of wanting to avoid any possible legal
> dispute, but after the years upon years of success that the FSF has
> had with their software without said legal problems, why don't they
> devote a bit of their development time to making the tools both good
> *and* efficient.

If you really want to discuss this, there are appropriate forums for
this (e.g., gnu.misc.discuss), where you can find people who know more
about this.

One assumption that you make and that I'm not sure is true, is that
the success you mention came so easily.  It could be that this success
requires them to keep fighting every day.

> > Don't forget that Watcom (and others) are single-platform compilers,
> > while GCC is highly portable.
> 
> Watcom
> host platforms -> DOS, Windows 3/9x/NT, QNX
> target platforms -> DOS16 (MZ, COM), DOS32 (various extender technologies),
> Win16/32/NT (executable, DLL, console, gui), Novell NLM, OS/2 (executable, DLL,
> presentation manager),  ADS (autocad development system),  QNX (16, 32),
> Penpoint (?).

These are all x86-based.  GCC supports lots of non-Intel CPUs (in
fact, it took Linux to get the GCC to respect x86 as an important
platform).