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- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 14:50:10 -0500 (EST)
- From: wisej <wisej@acf4.NYU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: GCC for Atari
- To: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
- In-Reply-To: <9403231002.ac09699@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
- Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9403231412.B22718-0100000@acf4.NYU.EDU>
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- On Wed, 23 Mar 1994, Chris Herborth wrote:
-
- > What you wrote:
- > >
- >
- > The League for Programming Freedom has been boycotting Apple (and the FSF
- > has been doing it too) ever since they started hitting on people with
- > their "look & feel" lawsuits. People will receive no support trying to
- > port or use GNU stuff on Macs, and their changes will not make it into
- > the official distributions for anything.
- >
- A boycott which has outlived its purpose. Apple has changed leadership
- twice since the boycott began, has stopped throwing around such lawsuits
- (There are now mac emulators for DOS, atari (?), amiga, SUN, and NeXT),
- and as of three weeks ago, has agreed to license the Mac OS. The time
- has come for the boycott to END.
-
- > I guess it's working; the only thing (well, other than being broke)
- > preventing me from buying a PowerPC-based Mac is the fact that there
- > isn't a decent programming environment available. I hate those stupid
- > "IDEs" that people use on DOS or OS/2 or the Mac... gimmie make and a
- > good shell any day!
- >
- Check out MPW then... I don't know how much longer they'll be supporting
- it, as it seems to be lagging, but if they do a PPC version, you've got
- what you want. MPW is Apple's Macintosh Programming Workshop (Workbench?),
- which provides a CLI set of compilers, tools, etc.
-
- > Maybe there'll be a PowerPC machine (or MIPS or Dec Alpha) that I can
- > run NeXTstep on in the next year or so... *drool* Then there's the
- > problem of how much workstations cost... :-(
- >
- I wish for this too...but I don't expect it. For one thing, Jobs has said
- right off that there will be no NeXTStep for PowerPC. His reason? He
- claimed there wasn't a large enough base of allready installed PPC
- Machines. Say What? As far as MIPS or Alpha based machines... It would be
- nice, but there's been no news of such a thing. There is a SPARC port coming,
- unless that got merged with the upcoming NeXT/SUN product.
-
- Several other UN*Xes will be around for PowerPC though.
-
- Jim Wise
- wisej@acf4.nyu.edu
-
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