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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states)
Message-ID: <275@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 02:37:19 GMT
References:  <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26947@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5524@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <5524@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
|In article <26947@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes:

|How much did your computer cost? About $2,000, I'd guess, would be average
|for a personal computer. Less if you want to get a good one like an Amiga
|instead of an IBM clone. But still, if you can afford that, you can afford
|a few hundred dollars for a good C compiler, or a hundred or so for a Modula
|compiler.

So an Amiga is a "good" computer, but it can't run the software I want to
run.  Interesting definition of "good".

| 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.  Gcc will
generate faster code than the vender-supplied C compiler.

| You can buy a lot of commercial software with the difference,

I don't know of too much commercial software for sale for a negative
amount of money.

| and expect to get help when something goes wrong.

You can NOT expect help from the vender when something goes wrong.

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