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From: "Ross S. W. Walker" <rsww@quanta.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Free SCO open server and soon Unixware to .edu!!
Date: 28 Aug 1996 02:13:41 GMT
Organization: WestNet Internet Services
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Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> wrote in article
<Pine.BSI.3.94.960822190706.3516C-100000@spyder.inna.net>...
> On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Stephan Forth wrote:
> 
> > reyes01@ibm.net wrote:
> > : Check http://www3.sco.com/Company/Announce/p081996e.htm
> > : for an announcement from SCO regarding their new free licencing of
SCO
> > : open server and soon or Unixware.
> 
> 
> > Just to start a little flame war :-)) :
> 
> 
> > SCO and Unixware sucks, I wouldn't use them if I would GET some
> 
> I am going to order the devel kit so I can use the commercial compilers
in
> FreeBSD's sco emulator....:).  I want access to a non gnu cc..gnu's okay,
> but I want to check out others.  
> 

Don't bother, everyone who has the commercial compilers tries hard and
fast to compile a copy of gcc as a first thing. They are quite bad.

The only reason I would run it is to get access to some of the
commercial software, but the price difference is so mch over similar
software for Win95/NT I would just buy a bigger HD and set it up to
dual boot between BSD and NT4.

Cheers,

Ross Walker