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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: What is Linux?
- Date: 22 Feb 96 15:35:22 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <4gg7cd$he1@salyko.cube.net> medardus@cube.net (Andreas Karnetzki) writes:
-
- >Douglas Wright (dwright@parka.winternet.com) schrieb:
- >
- >Me, I'm not sure if getting and installing Linux (which is a very
- >complete Unix system with Megabytes of software and many programming
- >languages and tools included - a Great system!) just for learning C.
- >I think getting a version of the GNU compiler for the already installed
- >operation system (DOS, OS/2 versions exists for sure; the DOS version
- >comes under the name DJGPP or GO32) would be a better idea.
- >
- >But this only an opinion.
-
- And here's another opinion, from someone who has used both DJGPP and the
- real thing under Linux, both on the same machine: gcc under its native
- environment (i.e. Unix) is considerably faster than DJGPP. Unless you
- have a fast Pentium with plenty of memory, DJGPP is a pain, especially
- for someone who is learning and has to do very frequent compilations of
- short sources.
-
- Since this whole thread is off topic for c.l.c, I won't enter into
- details and explain why the same program, on the same hardware, has
- so dramatically different performance (it's related to the way virtual
- memory works in Unix vs extended DOS).
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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