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From: talvola@janus.berkeley.edu (Erik Talvola)
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Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states)
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Date: 11 Aug 89 17:39:31 GMT
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In article <662@laic.UUCP> darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) writes:

   In article <275@sopwith.UUCP> snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
   >| If you want to run GNUCC, your computer is going to cost a lot more.
   >
   >In the local newsgroups, a computer is being offered for sale for a
   >suggested price of $1000, which will run gcc and friends.

   I am curious, actually.  Perhaps you are referring to a used computer
   (such as a used PDP)?  I would find it hard to find the memory needed
   to run GCC (on any but toy programs) for $750...

   What is this magical computer?  Will it be able to compile GCC using
   GCC?

I believe he may be refering to the Atari ST.  Someone just recently posted
a port of GCC v1.34 for the Atari ST to the atari newsgroup.  I don't have
an ST, so don't ask me for any more details, but if the ST is really 
powerful enough to run GCC, then I am impressed.

For a little more money (say $2000), you could probably get a bare bones
16 MHz 80386 PC clone, which should run GCC fine (if you run Unix on it).

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