From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 15:11:45 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Gnu/Stallman (was Bugs in V6 'dcheck') In-Reply-To: References: <201406020209.s5229Q5o006174@stowe.cs.dartmouth.edu> Message-ID: <59D01DBF-EF49-45B8-8F80-FA03E644A528@tfeb.org> On 2 Jun 2014, at 14:28, Clem Cole wrote: > [About gcc] > But the command suite was able to grow and lots of people besides rms contribute to it, because the basic development tools were there. As strange and difficult a person he is, I suspect we do all own rms a certain level of thanks for the basic dev tools. In particular I think the existence of GCC was critical to the existence of Linux: there is some complicated history involving a GCC port to ?Minix?, which I think was done because Minix's compiler was rudimentary, and that port enabling some Finnish guy (using Minix I guess) to bring up a kernel. I suspect there are people on this list who remember this better than I do though. --tim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: