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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:4474 comp.unix.sysv386:23274 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!wupost!gumby!destroyer!uunet!mcsun!uknet!gdt!aber!aberfa!pcg From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD) Message-ID: <PCG.92Aug27152230@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> Date: 27 Aug 92 15:22:30 GMT References: <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> <YSDIBS4@taronga.com> <9208162341.30@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug17.225116.20533@panix.com> <9208181753.32@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Aug25.062100.15187@nntp.hut.fi> <9208251653.26@rmkhome.UUCP> <UXE6MEB@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Sender: news@aber.ac.uk (USENET news service) Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Organization: Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: grefen@wilbur.uni-mainz.de's message of 26 Aug 92 07: 40:58 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: aberdb Kuoppala> Hmm - I think I've heard that Commodore(-Amiga) uses gcc to Kuoppala> compile their **ix OS and Lotus (yep, of the 1-2-3 and lawsuit Kuoppala> fame) uses gcc to compile their products. And then there's DG Kuoppala> which ships gcc as the native compiler. Not to mention NeXT, which is probably the major user of more or less fgree software around (their kernel is a Mach derivative, their compiler is GCC). Kelly> It would be a strange to build SVR4 with gcc. Commodore probably Kelly> started out with a Motorola development system running SVR4, and Kelly> a big pile of sources. They would have then hacked and Kelly> cross-compiled a development environment that would run on the Kelly> Amiga 2500 and 3000. On 26 Aug 92 07:40:58 GMT, grefen@wilbur.uni-mainz.de (Stefan Grefen) said: grefen> Atari has done it. Their SYSVR4 comes with only gcc (and g++). grefen> They were not very happy with the AT&T Sources, they told me :-) Dell SVR4 2.2 for the 386/486 has been compiled almost completely using GCC 2.x, apparently. I am not sure as to whether includes kernel sources or mostly the command and library sources. -- Piercarlo Grandi | JNET: pcg@uk.ac.aber Dept of CS, University of Wales | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@aber.ac.uk