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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:12663 comp.unix.bsd:6607 comp.unix.misc:5308 Newsgroups: comp.os.minux,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.misc Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pdn!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Subject: Re: Free OS cross-pollination Message-ID: <2ADC1EB6.AAFC@tct.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:20:54 GMT References: <1992Oct10.124926.12423@engr.uark.edu> <1992Oct12.100843.26287@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL Keywords: gcc linux egg chicken soup Followup-To: comp.unix.misc Lines: 20 [ followups to comp.unix.misc, for lack of a better place ] According to torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds): >The original gcc I used was the minix gcc (1.37.1) by Alan W Black (and >somebody.. >The minix-386 (thanks again, Bruce - without the 386 patches for minix I >would never have gotten anywhere) I was running by that time was able to >execute normal gcc binaries directly (the only major diff I did to minix >- and awb later made a better version of it), which is also the standard >linux binary format. So without Minix, Linux might not have been; or if it had, its creation would have been much more difficult. Now Linux and 386BSD can become starting points for new projects, too. Source code is a wonderful thing, n'est ce pas? -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com> "I am truly as big a genius as all other Rush fans." -- Bruce Bufalini