Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!

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From: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:32

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In article <1992Dec19.000239.11451@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, tariqh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
(Tariq Hamid) wrote:
> 
> In <lsr-181292122440@lsr.taligent.com> lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes:

> >Even if there wasn't a boycott against Apple the GNU software (especially
> >GCC) wouldn't be ported to the Mac OS as a matter of course simply because
> >their focus is Unix-like machines and it's relatively hard to port some of
> >the software to the Mac.

> Rubbish. The GCC compiler is available for the IBM PC, et al. And this version 
> in particular is _excellent_ e.g. it supports 128Mbytes of virtual memory.

I don't think the FSF does the ports to the IBM PC.  It's done by someone
else.  The same is true of the Mac.  You can get a version of GCC for MPW
and people are working on porting the latest version.  

My point was that even if the FSF wasn't boycotting Apple, they would not
be doing ports to the Mac.  The FSF doesn't actively support all platforms;
some are only "passively supported".

Larry Rosenstein
Taligent, Inc.

lsr@taligent.com

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