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In <1992Jan8.014003.30183@wpi.WPI.EDU> entropy@wintermute.WPI.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:

>Is GCC+GAS+gnu loader+gnu lib advanced enough that they can replace the
>development system you have to buy with unix? I'm looking into getting Sys V
>ver 4.0 for my 386 and the development system adds a few hundred to the price.
>I would like to buy it without the development system and use gcc if that was
>possible.

That is what you get when they unbundle the compiler. SUN is going to do the
same. You could use gcc and such, sure, but you need the system libraries and
the include files. No dev system bought, no include files and only some
libraries (the ones needed for running and admin the system).

Most big companies are unbundling their compiler stuff to please large
accounts who don't need it. Standalone users are victims of this (and in the
long run maybe the large accounts too, since it might slow down development of
things they need in the end). In effect it will be one of the moves to large
monolith developer companies (the other one being patent law).

I would look into systems that come with a dev system (NeXT?)
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