From: David Lebel (lebeld@iro.umontreal.ca)
Date: 05/22/93


From: lebeld@iro.umontreal.ca (David Lebel)
Subject: Re: Info World and MS-DOS 6
Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 23:47:44 GMT

In article <ins559n.737950826@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> you wrote:

: OS/2 2.1 may be a good idea if it fixes the problems of 2.0 (i.e., lack of
: drivers, crashing on some machines, high memory consumption, etc.) But still,
: you won't get an optimising C/C++ compiler with it, whereas with Linux you
: do.

        OS/2 have TWO port of GCC 2.3.3, EMX/gcc 0.8f and GCC/2 2.3.3. It
doesn't come with the operating system, but heck, to get Linux, you must dig
30+ disquettes out of the Internet web, so getting 2mb for EMX/gcc isn't much
more of effort. So what's your point?