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- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!merce
- From: merce@xenitec.on.ca (Jim Mercer)
- Subject: Re: ACK ANSI Compiler
- Organization: XeniTec Consulting, Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 00:28:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan07.002833.7639@xenitec.on.ca>
- References: <1993Jan6.163649.17110@udel.edu> <103840@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <103840@netnews.upenn.edu> yee@mipg.upenn.edu (Conway Yee) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan6.163649.17110@udel.edu>, henrik@husc.harvard.edu writes:
- >1>Time spent in QA.
- >
- >Questions and Answers? For ACK compilers? Nearly all support is on
- >comp.os.minix! Nobody pays com readers for support.
-
- Quality Assurance. (ie. testing)
-
- >The true reason for the $200 was recently (perhaps inadvertently) posted by
- >ast. The company distributing the ACK ANSI compiler has a monopoly on it.
-
- fine, if that's the way you want to look at it.
-
- lobby Borland to make a minix compiler.
-
- i'm sure that they might b able to gett one to market for somewhere around
- $2,000 a unit.
-
- a monopoly is when a single company controls something exclusively, and
- does not allow competition (either through force, or legislation).
-
- ACK is the only compiler maker for minix. but they do not have exclusive
- domain over making compilers for minix.
-
- if they want $200 for their compiler and you think it is too high, don't
- buy it. write your own. use 386 and gcc.
-
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