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From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <1083@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: 11 May 88 02:35:34 GMT
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <537@sol.warwick.ac.uk> <4521@hoptoad.uucp> <2894@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <2894@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
<>In article <4521@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
<>>I think that rather than figuring out fancy ways
<>>to pass binaries around, we should just remove them from the Usenet.

Hear, hear!

<>Look at the alternative:  To be able to use sources on most
<>microcomputers, you would probably have to have about five different C
<>compilers, two or three assemblers, a Pascal compiler or two, and at
<>least 10 megabytes of hard disk space for the big ones.  Realize that
<>no current microcomputer operating system on the market costing less
<>than $300 comes bundled with a decent language translator.
<>-- 
<>Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi

Nope.  All you need is Turbo-C (about $60 retail) and Turbo Pascal (a bit
less, I think).  Probably about $100 total.  Almost no one writes or posts
in assembler these days, but I think there are inexpensive assemblers
floating around.

I can't understand someone spending thousands of dollars on PC hardware,
hundreds of dollars on modems and telephone charges, and then balking at
shelling out 60 bucks for an _excellent_ C compiler!
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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