2 Jun
2014
2 Jun
'14
8:11 p.m.
On 2 Jun 2014, at 14:28, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
[About gcc]
But the command suite was able to grow and lots of people besides rms contribute to it,
because the basic development tools were there. As strange and difficult a person he is,
I suspect we do all own rms a certain level of thanks for the basic dev tools.
In particular I think the existence of GCC was critical to the existence of Linux: there
is some complicated history involving a GCC port to ?Minix?, which I think was done
because Minix's compiler was rudimentary, and that port enabling some Finnish guy
(using Minix I guess) to bring up a kernel. I suspect there are people on this list who
remember this better than I do though.
--tim