From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd24e54f7983a2f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-07 15:26:00 PST Path: swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!godot.cc.duq.edu!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FSF drops Apple boycott, opens gate for GNAT, etc. Date: 7 Feb 1995 15:05:19 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3h8jpv$2iq@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <3gnviq$epn@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3grq8l$jja@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <3h06rv$4pg@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3h3hiv$e49@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1995-02-07T15:05:19-05:00 List-Id: 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!