Re: FSF drops Apple boycott, opens gate for GNAT, etc.

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

I don't think an MPW port is that hard given the original Apple port as
a starting point. Yes, I quite realize that it won't be up to a level
that Cygnus would consider polished enough to charge significant $$$
for support, but I definitely think it could be done (and actually have
talked to someone who knows this stuff REALLY well who shared this opinion).
There is a huge gap between something that is usable, and something that
is up to productizable standards.

If it is so difficult to generate assembler (I don't think it is), then
why not generate C. A port of GCC to generate skeleton low level C would
be quite easy to do, certainly no harder than a from-scratch alpha port
for example!