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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!news.uni-mainz.de!wilbur!grefen From: grefen@wilbur.uni-mainz.de (Stefan Grefen) Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD) Message-ID: <UXE6MEB@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Sender: grefen@wilbur (Stefan Grefen) Nntp-Posting-Host: wilbur Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz References: <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> <YSDIBS4@taronga.com> <9208162341.30@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug17.225116.20533@panix.com> <9208181753.32@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug25.062100.15187@nntp.hut.fi> <9208251653.26@rmkhome.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:40:58 GMT Lines: 24 In article <9208251653.26@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: |> In article <1992Aug25.062100.15187@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes: [ save bandwitdh ] |> > |> >Hmm - I think I've heard that Commodore(-Amiga) uses gcc to compile |> >their **ix OS and Lotus (yep, of the 1-2-3 and lawsuit fame) uses gcc |> >to compile their products. And then there's DG which ships gcc as the |> >native compiler. |> |> |> It would be a strange to build SVR4 with gcc. Commodore probably started |> out with a Motorola development system running SVR4, and a big pile of |> sources. They would have then hacked and cross-compiled a development |> environment that would run on the Amiga 2500 and 3000. Atari has done it. Their SYSVR4 comes with only gcc (and g++). They were not very happy with the AT&T Sources, they told me :-) |> -- |> |> Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP -- Stefan Grefen --- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz --- Germany Email: grefen@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de --- Phone: 06131/392415