From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:40:20 -0600 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 235b6c7c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 we should not deprive andy tannenbaum of one iota of the credit he so richly deserves for spurring the creation of linux. all linus wanted was the ability to distribute a pre-patched version of minix which supported a few non-80286-compatable convienences like protected memory. - erik On Sun Mar 26 02:15:00 CST 2006, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2006, at 6:52 PM, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote: > > > i've got to say one thing in gcc's favor. it was way the heck > > better than > > any other compiler i had available when it was first written. > > I have fond memories of threatining the Sun sales sloths with death > and worse if they didn't at least ship .h files after they unbundled > the C compiler. Sun is as responsible for GCC as the AT&T lawyers > are responsible for Linux. > > --lyndon