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In article <1938@inasys.UUCP> behe@inasys.UUCP (Bernd Hentig) writes:
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+Hmmm, I'd love to use g++, too and didn't get it to run on ISC till now.
+However, as I do know it works great for Ultrix, AIX (I installed g++2.1 on 
+these machines :) and gcc works for ISC (out of the box, by the way)
+I do think (honestly) that the gurus developing things like gcc and gdb
+are not working on PC's like ISC/SCO 386 but on professional machines
+like SunSparc386, Ultrix or HP, so real support for PC - Unix is off the
+way.

It seems strange to me that, with all the PC's out there, the PC
people are waiting for 'someone' else to do the 'port' or improve
it. I don't have a PC, although I've thought about buying one, since
that seems to be the platform that the HURD of Gnus are beating
their hooves on(at least first). 

I've also contemplated porting the Mach micro-kernel to a 68K based
machine, since the public distributions only have support(if one can
really call it that) for MIPS, 386, and now 88K.

Had I the time and money...

As for the benefits, I've made a lot of success out of having 'free'
ware tools, such as in the ancient days DECUS C, and now in the
modern age, GNU CC. Were I confronted with a platform such as the PC
and force to use it, I would spend the time to bring up the GNU
tools on such. It's just a matter of getting in a doing it.

As for the comparisons between Borland and GNU, since I haven't had
to use a PC for several years, and at that time B's stuff was
paltry, I would have choosen something else for a solution, which
was not M's cc product either. Now there is at least some GNU
support for PC I would probably switch to that set of programs.

The PC argument is unfortunately circular, Buy a PC because it's
cheap, because it's cheap it doesn't support X, so buy cheap
imitation of X, Y... But Y isn't as satisfactory or easy to use as
X, hence Y is lousy... So buy a more expensive system, but then one
can't buy X because one's limited resources went to buy the
system.. So one is stuck with Y' a cheap imatation of X, which is
lousy..
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John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu