home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!rat!ucselx!crash!cwr
- From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: About the ACK ANSI compiler... [not th
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.225657.15773@crash>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 06:56:56 GMT
- References: <C0CpIu.K3M@cs.vu.nl>
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
- Lines: 19
-
- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) wrote:
- :>In article 2833@udel.edu, Damian McGuckin <damianm@eram.esi.com.au> writes:
- : >In defence of ast, I also have NO complaints about the cost,
- : >...I never understood why Prentice Hall could not handle these too
- :
- : Because the Vrije Universiteit owns ACK and has a long-standing contract with
- : UniPress and Transmediair to distribute ACK in all of its forms.
- :
- : Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
-
- At last, the answer. It's not the cost of disks, or shipping, or whatever
- the current excuse is. Transmediair have the rights to that fashionable
- software, an ANSI C compiler, so they can charge top dollar for it. The
- fact that it runs only on the Minix OS is neither here nor there to their
- finely-honed marketing minds. I had a feeling that was going to be the
- case. Oh well, at least we finally got a coherent (excellent pun) answer.
-
- Will
- cwr@crash.cts.com
-