Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jack Strangio Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 05:24:57 -0000 (UTC) Organization: North Star Horizon Builders Club Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 05:24:57 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="98e7427377c0dfbb35ad8b51e5c20445"; logging-data="4632"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+GBZ5Z23L1MKN2wTf6CV3dWxlxxgSKGUk=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:jA7hwKPIOyAG1xBHHh2c5t8eDkc= X-Newsreader: TASS News Reader 3.7.2 jvs [linux] Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux:64217 comp.os.linux.misc:29631 comp.os.linux.advocacy:550411 > anonlinuxuser wrote in > The odd part is that the requirements to be a UNIX is to require a > C compiler. That was so you could alter and recompile the unix kernel to reflect how your Unix machine was configured. (Just like we used to configure and compile our own Linux kernels back in the early 2000s or thereabouts.) When Solaris II was released, there was no longer a need to recompile the kernel (for the same reason that we no longer compile our Linux kernels today either - loadable modules) and there was no longer a built-in C compiler supplied. So that was when I downloaded and began using 'gcc' because Sun's own C Compiler cost fifteen arms and a dozen legs. -- "It's rather cold." she said bitchily.