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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: The Mac is not a hacker's computer (was Re: Sozobon...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.173616.13027@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 17:36:16 +1300
- References: <29879@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan5.023237.18823@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1993Jan5.023237.18823@cs.yale.edu>, bobf@flint.geology.yale.edu (Bob Fischer) writes:
- >
- > I hope that GCC will see the light of day on the Mac. Since the Mac
- > is not really a hacker's computer, few people have shown an interest
- > in porting it.
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- I resent the claim that the Mac is "not really a hacker's computer"!
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- Tell me, on what other machine would a hack like Wild Magic be possible?
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- Lawrence
- been hacking Macs almost as long as he's been hacking VAXes.
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