Re: Hardware and OS for free software development

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From: Bruce Bauman
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 1990 21:06

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Buy a 386, get Minix for approximately $100 at your local bookstore,
apply the (soon-to-be-available) diffs to run in 32-bit protected
mode, and you're almost there. gcc, gas, and the binutils are already
running, and I'm working on gdb.

You don't get virtual memory, long filenames, or symbolic links, but
it's actually a pretty useable environment.

Works for me :-).

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Subject: Re: Hardware and OS for free software development
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