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From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sat Jun 19 05:53:25 1999

On Jun 18, 20:22, Allison J Parent wrote:

> <But does freeware/shareware count? The original point was that the
> <manufacturers don't provide their tools for free as part of the OS; of
> <course you can add on any amount of 3rd party free software to virtually
> <any OS.

> However the shareware/freeware counting part I agree it's questionable
> but often there are better out there than from the OS oem.

Hmm... sometimes. The Sun C compiler was dropped because it wasn't up to
scratch; gcc outperformed it easily. However, the reverse is true for
SGI's C compiler for IRIX, which easily outperforms gcc, and for which
there are a whole range of development options.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Sat Jun 19 1999 - 05:53:25 BST

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