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Date:      Fri, 04 Aug 2000 07:21:07 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Edward Wolpert <wolpert@methodsystems.com>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com>, "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>
Subject:   Re: Off Topic Solaris question
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000804072107.wolpert@methodsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000803232908.C66052@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com>

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On 04-Aug-00 Crist J . Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:57:16PM -0400, Andrew C. Hornback wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> > I love Solaris for what it can do.
>> 
>>      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.
> 
> And SGI. And IBM. And HP. This is pretty standard for commercial
> UNIX. For commercial OSes. (period)

It didn't use to be like this. Before Solaris was SunOS... based on BSD
UNIX.  It came with a nice C compiler, though at the time, the first
thing we did was load gcc anyways. 

                                           
Virtually,                                 | Open/Web Systems Architect
Edward Wolpert <wolpert@methodsystems.com> | 
                4eb8                 4e75  | "Java. It's not just for
___________________________________________/  breakfast anymore. " -anon

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