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From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sat Jun 19 20:03:51 1999

At 12:44 AM 6/20/99 +0000, Pete wrote:
>OK, I stand corrected. But I'm not quite sure what you're saying that Sun
>now offer.

Sun dropped the bundled compiler (based on pcc from the original BSD
releases) and now ships _no_ compiler with the system. To buy C you buy
SPARCWorks or whatever it is called these days and run the stuuupid license
manager etc. Or you go to sunsite and get the prebuilt gcc tool chain which
isn't half bad. Java was developed using Gcc until the uber-body of Sun
re-absorbed the group and mandated SPARCWorks.

--Chuck
Received on Sat Jun 19 1999 - 20:03:51 BST