On Jun 19, 12:21, Chuck McManis wrote:
> Hmm, I've stayed out of this conversation for now, but Pete is mistaken.
I
> participate (as much as anyone could) in the decision to drop the C
> compiler from SunOS as part of the "BWOS" (acronym for Big Wad Of Stuff).
I
> argued to keep it, marketing argued to drop it
> Basically you could either view it as a competition inspiring move or a
> price increase in the base system (since the C compiler was now extra
cost)
>
> It did raise quite a bit of money for Sun but GCC pretty much wiped out
the
> marginal dollars and the people who buy it now are corporate types and
the
> hackers have pretty much abandoned the platform.
OK, I stand corrected. But I'm not quite sure what you're saying that Sun
now offer. Are you saying there's still a bundled compiler (but not a very
great one, and probably non-ANSI) and there is also a separate set of
relatively expensive compiler tools? I could believe that; we've just
ordered something involving Sun, large chunks of money, and the name 'C'.
Or are you saying it's not dropped, just not bundled with Solaris? I
didn't mean a decent ANSI C compiler didn't exist, merely that it wasn't
bundled.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sat Jun 19 1999 - 19:44:15 BST