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- From: philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Philip Machanick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: C Compiler on Iris INDIGO
- Message-ID: <34597@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 14:40:56 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- In article <1992Dec7.214720.19501@microunity.com> Jeff Weinstein,
- jsw@microunity.com writes:
- > Don't even bother. You still need the linker, assembler, libraries,
- and
- >headers, which are all part of IDO. There are no reasonable
- replacements.
- >Even if you could get gnu ld, gas, and gnu libc, you would still be
- missing
- >out on things like GL.
-
- This is true. The development option is quite reasonable value. You get
- a large box full of X and Motif manuals, GL, Motif, C etc. If you are
- going to economize on anything, go for third party RAM and peripherals.
- --
- Philip Machanick
- Computer Science Dept, Univ of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa
- philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za phone: 27 (11) 716-3759 fax: 339-7965
-