OT -mostly - - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Jun 1999

On Jun 19, 12:21, Chuck McManis wrote:

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  Hmm, I've stayed out of this conversation for now,
but Pete is mistaken. I
...
  participate (as much as anyone could) in the decision
to drop the C
 compiler from SunOS as part of the "BWOS" (acronym for Big Wad Of Stuff).
I
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  argued to keep it, marketing argued to drop it 
...
  Basically you could either view it as a competition
inspiring move or a
 price increase in the base system (since the C compiler was now extra cost)
...

 It did raise quite a bit of money for Sun but GCC pretty much wiped out the
...
  marginal dollars and the people who buy it now are
corporate types and the
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  hackers have pretty much abandoned the platform.

OK, I stand corrected.  But I'm not quite sure what you're saying that Sun
now offer.  Are you saying there's still a bundled compiler (but not a very
great one, and probably non-ANSI) and there is also a separate set of
relatively expensive compiler tools?  I could believe that; we've just
ordered something involving Sun, large chunks of money, and the name 'C'.

Or are you saying it's not dropped, just not bundled with Solaris?  I
didn't mean a decent ANSI C compiler didn't exist, merely that it wasn't
bundled.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York