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From: phr@mit-hermes.AI.MIT.EDU (Paul Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: DEC Rainbow C compilers/editors??
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Date: Sat, 3-Jan-87 01:30:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  3 01:30:19 1987
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In article <409@hadron.UUCP> klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler) writes:
>Not to knock the FINE commercial products out there, but there is a P/D
>implementation of uEMACS for the Rainbow that can be downloaded from
>Fido 109/483 (The Pot of Gold) at 703-359-6549.  The commercial
>products are much better.  Obviously, you gets what you pays for.
>However, you may want to try the P/D stuff and then spring for the
>commercial versions.  I also have DED available on 109/483, as well as
>a lot of other good generic and Rainbow specific software.

GNU Emacs unfortunately doens't run on the Rainbow (needs more address
space), but generally you spread a commonly believed mistruth when you
say commercial software is "obviously" better than free software.
Please don't let yourself be indoctrinated like this--- think
about it first.  I don't know of any commercial screen editor nearly
as good as GNU Emacs.


We are going to release a free, retargetable, super optimizing C
compiler soon (again, too big for a PDP-11 -- sorry).  It generates
substantially better code than any commercial compiler we have compared
it with.

	Paul Rubin
	Free Software Foundation (sometimes)