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>So, should D. J. Delorie be stopped from porting GCC to that other (if 
>you can call it an) operating system because they put proprietary hooks
>in their software that no one else is allowed to use, because they're
>undocumented, but if you want to write useful software, you have to use
>those hooks?  (I know, it is a run-on sentance.)  If GCC helps make 
>machines that use this OS more usable to certain people, doesn't it 
>result in more business for that company?

Actually, use of GCC at this time means that we cannot use
Windows or a host of other wonderful (?) software that depends
upon real-mode memory managers (HIMEM,QEMM,etc).

So prehaps one could argue that use of GCC works in the opposite
direction that MicroSoft is taking ????

Just a thought...
	<ras>


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