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Date:      Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:05:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>
To:        "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Off Topic Solaris question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008031700170.13458-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
In-Reply-To: <008f01bffda4$f7e2c100$d4776bce@challenger>

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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Andrew C. Hornback wrote:

> 	Not much experience with Solaris, eh?  Who in their right mind
> ships a form of Unix without a built-in C compiler?  Two words... Sun
> Microsystems.

Not that I like it, but it's not fair to single out Sun.  IBM (AIX), HP
(HP-UX), and SGI (Irix) all don't include a compiler in the base OS.  I
only have one Alpha, but it seems like Digital/Compaq (Tru64) is the only
major commercial UNIX vendor that does include a compiler with the base
OS.  

Ken



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