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Xref: sserve comp.os.minix:22381 comp.os.386bsd.misc:523 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3350 comp.os.linux:45561 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!uni-paderborn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!hathi!dak From: dak@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc Date: 29 Jun 1993 06:07:37 GMT Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <20om79$4lf@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <1993Jun19.125224.17510@colorado.edu> <1993Jun19.231341.3524@jacobs.jacobs.mn.org> <1993Jun25.012530.800@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jun28.090127.2880@swan.pyr> NNTP-Posting-Host: hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes: >minor oddities and a more limited mmap() than say SunOS at the moment. Loads >of people here do a lot of work with Linux. In fact the only thing holding >back students running Linux here is the 1st year, and a few second year >courses that use pascal (ugh). Everything else (prolog,ml,C,C++..) is >available. Well, look closely. There is p2c, a pascal to C converter that does a reasonable job. Reasonable enough for matters not explicitly version- dependent, although some constructs of Turbo Pascal can be even emulated as well. Admitted, it is not as interactive as the Borland products, but it works. -- David Kastrup dak@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Tel: +49-241-72419 Fax: +49-241-79502 Goethestr. 20, W-5100 Aachen, Germany