--- Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
After someone else asked:
> > After playing with BeOS a while something occurred to me. Does anyone
> > remember at what point operating systems stopped coming with development
> > tools?
>
> I wasn't aware that they had :-). At least Linux, *BSD, VMS (I think),
> etc come with compilers.
VMS (V5.X and before, for sure) came with an assembler. Compilers were
always extra. At least the engineers stuck it to the marketing types when
the marketing types wanted to charge extra for *run-time* libraries for
the various languages. The engineers wrote a system utility (CUSPS, as they
were called by DEC - I forget exactly what it stands for) in each of the
languages DEC shipped so that the runtimes would have to ship with the OS,
not as a seperate product. ISTR that the error log analyzer is written in
PL/1, for example.
Solaris 2.x never came with a C compiler, but SunOS (BSD-based) did.
AmigaDOS 1.0 came with ABasic, 1.1 and later came with AmigaBASIC (M$). The
assembler and C compiler, etc., were always extra. After 1987, AmigaDOS
came with AREXX. At least the Amiga, after 1.3, came with MicroEMACS as
an alternative to the crappy standard editor.
-ethan
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Received on Fri Jun 18 1999 - 18:13:19 BST