From: rbs{at}snippets.org
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 Charles Angelich wrote:

> The older Pacific C (K&R) would fit on one 1.4meg floppy which I thought
> was a hoot! Being K&R became a 'stopper' but it was neat that you could
> put it on one floppy. :-)

Datalight C (the precursor to Zortech and later Symantec C/C++) also fit
on a single 5-1/4" floppy. I still have it around here, but I'm not sure
if the only 5-1/2" drive on my family's network still works.

> BS> I've always viewed GPL as an abomination. It accomplishes
> BS> little other than muddying the waters.
>
> I remember that the majority of programmers actively sharing code at one
> time were very much against GPL and considered Stallman an outsider (as
> primarily a mainframe programmer) who wasn't entitled to interject his
> philosophy into what he really wasn't a part of.
>
> At one point GNU seemed to have died but the popularity of Linux brought
> GNU back from the dead. Apparently Stallman could smell the blood?

GNU is still dead, IMHO... GNU aspired to be what Linux achieved. The only
thing of GNU that really lives on are the tools. Still, GPL proved
unpopular enough that those tools are now distributed with libraries which
don't carry the curse of GPL.

> I will try to get it installed here and see what it's like now in a
> newer (too big for one floppy) version.

Do report back what you find - I'm sure there are many who'd be interested
in hearing about it.


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