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From: sg93m3tj@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Bradley Ross)
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Subject: Re: FSF drops Apple boycott, opens gate for GNAT, etc
Date: 9 Feb 1995 16:52:27 -0500
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In article <3h8qve$e02@cmcl2.nyu.edu>,
Richard Kenner <kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote:
>The 68K was the CPU used in the Sun3, which was for quite a while the
>major (indeed essentially only) workstation used in Universities and
>many other places.
>
The 68K CPU was used in a number of different workstations in addition
to the Sun 3 workstation.  I believe it was also used on the Apollo
workstations in the past and is currently used on the Commodore Amiga.
Both GCC and GNAT have been ported to the Commodore Amiga, although
the reference for the GNAT port stated that the version they used
required an immense amount of memory to compile itself.  Is the new
version more efficient in this regard?

>The PowerPC port was done since it is very similar to the POWER
>architecture used by the RS/6000, which GCC has supported since its
>inception.
>
>Motorola and IBM have expressed interest in the PowerPC GCC port.