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Date:      Thu, 09 Aug 2001 13:28:00 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010809132550.046ed150@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20010809202137.A94276@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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At 01:21 PM 8/9/2001, j mckitrick wrote:

>Then I moved on to an Amiga 1000, and promptly bought the Aztec Manx C
>compiler.  I never did figure out how to read all of those man pages that
>came with the Fred Fish disks.  :-)

At BADGE (the Bay Area Amiga Developers' GroupE), which I founded, Fred
would come to every meeting and run off diskettes at the back of the
room during the talks. I had the Green Hills compiler that was part of
the official SDK. Green Hills' compilers produced correct but poorly
optimized code.... As GCC does. I wanted something better.

--Brett


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