Aghast at the Quality? (was: Microport Buyout )

[Peter da Silva]

In article <623 at eecea.eece.ksu.edu>, terry at eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) writes:
> In article <11307 at well.UUCP> tneff at well.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
> >Finally, why should we expect GNU to get
> >"right" whatever it is that all these implementations got "wrong"?

> Well gcc produces the fastest code of any C compiler...

Biggest C compiler, too. The rest of their products are also code hogs...

> With a track record like [that] I expect their beta release will be higher
> quality than some other vendor's finished product.  

Depends on what you mean by 'higher quality'. If it won't at least run with
a mere ("mere"!) 2 Megabytes of RAM, which is damned likely considering how
much RAM gcc requires, I'd hardly call it an improvement.

Remember when small was beautiful? There's no reason a good UNIX with all the
functionality of OS/2 and then some shouldn't run on a standard AT, or at least
a 1 Meg 386 box. I chose 2 Meg above because I've run System V on a 386 in that
little ("little"!) RAM.
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