Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-07-23 19:51, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Neal Hogan wrote:
> > > And thanks for reminding us of the essential role of gcc, glibc, and
> > > binutils.  I'm too new to GNU/linux to remember.. but would anything
> > > have been possible without them?
> > >     
> >
> > yes
> >   
> well sure, if you were working on ITS or some other research operating 
> system, otherwise, the price of commercial compilers and libc (say from 
> Sun) were pretty high, and you ran into licensing issues re. libc

BSD had to have a cc before gcc came along, no?

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