Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7
Date	2015-07-05 21:05 +0100
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Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
<snip>
> 9000MB is too much just to download a C compiler to have a go at
<snip>
> MS seem to have forgotten what the "micro" in Microsoft used to mean.

The micro in Microsoft probably comes from the the micro in
microprocessor.  To paraphrase Norma Desmond, the systems can be big,
it's the processors that got small.  The processors MS aims its software
at are still, by and large, micro ones.

-- 
Ben.

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Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 01:45 -0700
  Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 06:35 -0700
    Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 06:47 -0700
      Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-05 15:34 +0100
        Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-05 11:20 -0500
          Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-05 17:50 +0100
            Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 10:29 -0700
            Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-05 12:49 -0500
              Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-05 19:19 +0100
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Martin Shobe <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-05 14:22 -0500
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-05 12:49 -0700
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-05 21:05 +0100
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-05 15:38 -0500
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-05 22:38 +0100
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-05 17:18 -0700
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-07-05 18:23 -0700
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-07-06 02:43 +0100
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-06 10:27 +0100
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-06 20:13 +0000
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-07-07 15:18 -0500
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-07-07 13:31 -0700
                Re: OT - gcc for Windows not being recognized by Windows 7 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-07-07 21:16 +0000

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