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- From: smiley@akasha.eng.hou.compaq.com (Colin Smiley)
- Subject: Re: Rating of gcc in Unix Review
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.163120.14470@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
- References: <156eo7INN6d3@betty.cs.widener.edu> <1992Jul29.182422.12287@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> <l7e7f6INNm9n@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:31:20 GMT
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- In article <l7e7f6INNm9n@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
- |> 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).
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- My mistake. Sun's CC is listed in the Unix Review article as costing
- from $995-$2000. Of course they list GCC as $200-$230(All $ amounts
- are US). They should have included the fact that it's free if you
- have FTP.
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- I can't remember where I got the $2000 figure...I wasn't just trying to
- take the worst price, honest. :-)
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