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From: "Thomas Paulsen" <thomas.paulsen@firemail.de>
To: "John Gilmore" <gnu@toad.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org, jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of popularity of C (GCC/Cygnus)
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 06:33:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ef1f056cf19b3c157fc3a8f769b4494@firemail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28538.1590179965@hop.toad.com>

>Early on, GCC had the slight advantage that because it was free (as in
>both beer and speech) and had an email community of maintainers
I remember that we started moving to gcc, gmake, etc,, because these tools 
performed simply spoken better than the native SNI ones.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-23  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-21 18:28 [TUHS] History of popularity of C Noel Chiappa
2020-05-21 18:44 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-05-21 19:06   ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-21 20:27     ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-05-22  8:52 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-05-22  9:51   ` Tyler Adams
2020-05-22 11:09     ` arnold
2020-05-22 11:15       ` Tyler Adams
2020-05-22 18:40         ` John Gilmore
2020-05-22 19:01           ` Toby Thain
2020-05-22 19:35             ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-22 19:31           ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-22 20:19           ` Michael Kjörling
2020-05-22 14:59       ` Toby Thain
2020-05-22 20:39       ` [TUHS] History of popularity of C (GCC/Cygnus) John Gilmore
2020-05-23  4:33         ` Thomas Paulsen [this message]
2020-05-22 11:58     ` [TUHS] History of popularity of C A. P. Garcia

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