Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 12, 2004 11:02 PM
Before we had the GNU C compiler, every C program (free or not) depended on a non-free C compiler
Ron Cain's Small-C compiler was free (as in beer) and widely used in the 8-bit world before GCC was a twinkle in RMS' eye, there were even free (as in beer) operating systems written for it back when GCC was still "entrapped" by the need to run on proprietary hardware and systems.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 12, 2004 11:02 PMRon Cain's Small-C compiler was free (as in beer) and widely used in the 8-bit world before GCC was a twinkle in RMS' eye, there were even free (as in beer) operating systems written for it back when GCC was still "entrapped" by the need to run on proprietary hardware and systems.
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