From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 6:21:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dnvrpop5.dnvr.uswest.net (dnvrpop5.dnvr.uswest.net [206.196.128.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2567C37BA9B for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 06:21:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wolpert@methodsystems.com) Received: (qmail 44571 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2000 13:21:07 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 44533 invoked by uid 0); 4 Aug 2000 13:21:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO osti.methodsystems.com) (63.227.49.195) by dnvrpop5.dnvr.uswest.net with SMTP; 4 Aug 2000 13:21:07 -0000 Content-Length: 1196 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000803232908.C66052@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 07:21:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Edward Wolpert To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Subject: Re: Off Topic Solaris question Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Damon Hammis , "Andrew C. Hornback" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 | 4eb8 4e75 | "Java. It's not just for ___________________________________________/ breakfast anymore. " -anon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBOYrDQ62tQW/xJRRFAQExRAL+Kbs5y4ZPi+NILYKctgfIpDaJJ7XYY8uo EanPsa9x1zI+5ExnP3sKRDpng/tSHE+aiXc/Yobnys1+7LoW9bVvHfumn592GvtV /VZ+tMbZoLUcpoEoMJ3TxBqcurRt6fsb =i5At -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message