From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 17: 5:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D34037B632 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:05:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hacker@bolingbroke.com) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA14274; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:05:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:05:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Off Topic Solaris question In-Reply-To: <008f01bffda4$f7e2c100$d4776bce@challenger> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message