From: Idle Raffish Hippy Grocer (pgr@comlab.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 07/04/93


From: pgr@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Idle Raffish Hippy Grocer)
Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1993 16:29:47 GMT

In <1993Jul4.000303.1356@dg-rtp.dg.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi> writes:
[about 0.99pl11]
> This has a few changes from
> the last one, the most notable being that it is compiled using C++, as
> there was some interest in that on the c.o.l newsgroup. [...]

You know, call me old-fashioned, but I've always considered changing the
compilation language a little more than a `patch-level' step...

Isn't it time for 0.9A or summut :-?

pihl