*nix on "classic" systems - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Apr 2007

Steven wrote

...
   SPARC is
better, indeed for C++ or ANSI C on SunOS4 you will probably 
 have to
 use gcc, since Sun's ANSI and C++ compilers are both hard to come by 
 and
 nodelocked. 
 Are you talking about the SUNWspro tools?  Those are available for free
 download from Sun.  I think they call it Studio 11, or something like
 that.

Sun Studio 11 has fairly high system requirements (Solaris 8+ and an 
Ultra (listed as 450MHz U60 but probably will work with less). The 
older compilers (for SunOS4.1 through Solaris 7) are nodelocked (and go 
by many names: SPARCompilers, Forte, and WorkShop).