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- From: lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein)
- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Message-ID: <lsr-181292192918@lsr.taligent.com>
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- References: <01050133.ksdp2c@distant.uucp> <1992Dec11.195344.10218@reed.edu> <1992Dec11.155851.14862@walter.cray.com> <1gb6n9INNpmk@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec16.132756.20642@gssec.bt.co.uk> <lsr-181292122440@lsr.taligent.com> <1992Dec19.000239.11451@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:32:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.000239.11451@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, tariqh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
- (Tariq Hamid) wrote:
- >
- > In <lsr-181292122440@lsr.taligent.com> lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
-
- > >Even if there wasn't a boycott against Apple the GNU software (especially
- > >GCC) wouldn't be ported to the Mac OS as a matter of course simply because
- > >their focus is Unix-like machines and it's relatively hard to port some of
- > >the software to the Mac.
-
- > Rubbish. The GCC compiler is available for the IBM PC, et al. And this version
- > in particular is _excellent_ e.g. it supports 128Mbytes of virtual memory.
-
- I don't think the FSF does the ports to the IBM PC. It's done by someone
- else. The same is true of the Mac. You can get a version of GCC for MPW
- and people are working on porting the latest version.
-
- My point was that even if the FSF wasn't boycotting Apple, they would not
- be doing ports to the Mac. The FSF doesn't actively support all platforms;
- some are only "passively supported".
-
- Larry Rosenstein
- Taligent, Inc.
-
- lsr@taligent.com
-