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- From: chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Rating of gcc in Unix Review
- Date: 29 Jul 1992 22:38:30 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- References: <156eo7INN6d3@betty.cs.widener.edu> <1992Jul29.182422.12287@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- In article <1992Jul29.182422.12287@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> smiley@akasha.eng.hou.compaq.com (Colin Smiley) writes:
- >Let's face it, GCC has already proven itself to me...just compile
- >X11R5 with it on a sparc (this is running SunOS4.1.1). And I don't
- >have to pay $2000 a seat for each copy either.
-
- I realize that people don't want to see advertising sort of stuff on
- this news group, but the above is incorrect, in that it implies that
- SunPro's compilers cost $2000/seat. The correct price is $995 (USA$).
- This includes compilers for both 4.1.1 and 5.0 (aka Solaris 1.0 and
- 2.0). Read the advertisements. (According to the blurb sheet that I
- tracked down, this offer is good until September 30 for compilers
- purchased from SunExpress. After that, or if you buy from SMCC, I
- cannot say, because I do not know).
-
- This is, of course, still an infinite factor higher than the list
- price of gcc, but you knew that already.
-
- Feel free to post unflattering facts about Sun's products, but please
- be sure that they are facts. Someone here ought to have a look at the
- Unix Review article to comment on that, but that is probably Not My
- Job (meaning I should be spending my time doing things like ensuring
- that our compilers come out on top in any benchmark, no matter how
- carelessly done.)
-
- David Chase
- Sun
-