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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.westnet.com!usenet From: "Ross S. W. Walker" <rsww@quanta.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Free SCO open server and soon Unixware to .edu!! Date: 28 Aug 1996 02:13:41 GMT Organization: WestNet Internet Services Lines: 34 Message-ID: <01bb9486$b4dafe80$1f0718ce@quark> References: <4vg830$hkc@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <1996Aug22.040223.3747@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <Pine.BSI.3.94.960822190706.3516C-100000@spyder.inna.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: port31.ts1.westnet.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> wrote in article <Pine.BSI.3.94.960822190706.3516C-100000@spyder.inna.net>... > On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Stephan Forth wrote: > > > reyes01@ibm.net wrote: > > : Check http://www3.sco.com/Company/Announce/p081996e.htm > > : for an announcement from SCO regarding their new free licencing of SCO > > : open server and soon or Unixware. > > > > Just to start a little flame war :-)) : > > > > SCO and Unixware sucks, I wouldn't use them if I would GET some > > I am going to order the devel kit so I can use the commercial compilers in > FreeBSD's sco emulator....:). I want access to a non gnu cc..gnu's okay, > but I want to check out others. > Don't bother, everyone who has the commercial compilers tries hard and fast to compile a copy of gcc as a first thing. They are quite bad. The only reason I would run it is to get access to some of the commercial software, but the price difference is so mch over similar software for Win95/NT I would just buy a bigger HD and set it up to dual boot between BSD and NT4. Cheers, Ross Walker