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From: dak@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc
Date: 29 Jun 1993 06:07:37 GMT
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iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:

>minor oddities and a more limited mmap() than say SunOS at the moment. Loads
>of people here do a lot of work with Linux. In fact the only thing holding
>back students running Linux here is the 1st year, and a few second year
>courses that use pascal (ugh). Everything else (prolog,ml,C,C++..) is
>available.

Well, look closely. There is p2c, a pascal to C converter that does a
reasonable job. Reasonable enough for matters not explicitly version-
dependent, although some constructs of Turbo Pascal can be even emulated
as well. Admitted, it is not as interactive as the Borland products,
but it works.
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