Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 16:28:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robert Clark <rdc AT freenet DOT vancouver DOT bc DOT ca>
Subject: Re: Commercial software built with GNU
To: Marcus Franke <marcus DOT franke AT stud DOT uni-bamberg DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, Marcus Franke wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, Kevin Baca wrote:
> > > A few weeks ago, I asked for info about commercial software built
> > > with GNU tools.  Some people asked me to post my results.  Here
> > > [some stuff deleted]
> [some stuff deleted]
> > > NEXTStep                 NEXT operating system
> NEXTstep was build with GNU? Really? I can't believe...
> 
 I'm not too surprised.

 When the Alpha chip (DEC, not Next, I know) was first publically released
I had the pleasure of attending the Vancouver Real Time Show. DEC was
there with thier chip on a tiny motherboard (EISA 6 Slot / 256M/4M  !  ).

 I asked the guy if they were supporting GNU; he responded that a lot
of development work was done with it and that the operating system was
off of another DEC system; just ported over (and TEN years strong).

 They knew of others working on a full port of GNU as we spoke; some 
two years or so ago. Note that I did not exactly say that part of the 
Alpha operating system _was_ written and compiled in GNU C; nor did _he_.


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