jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) (04/09/91)
Archive-name: gnu/gcc/symmetric-gcc/1991-04-06
Original-posting-by: jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Original-subject: GCC for the Symmetric Computer Systems 32016 box available.
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
Some said it couldn't be done. Others said it shouldn't be done. Still
more said "Just what the hell is a Symmetric, anyway?"
But it was done.
GCC 1.39 and GAS 1.38 have been ported to the Symmetric system and are
hereby offered free of charge to the other 3 Symmetric system owners
out there ("What? You turned yours into a planter?? Oh. Make that 2 other
owners..").
Many thanks go to Ian Dall for his ICM 32016 port of GCC 1.37, after
which this port is very closely modeled. Thanks must also go to the
Folgers coffee company, without whos product the project would never have
been completed.
The release is somewhat unusual as GNU software releases go, since I
won't actually be distributing that much in the way of diffs. This
is primarily because Symmetric's native C compiler was TOO BRAIN DAMAGED
to actually compile C on its own (I tried, believe me) and I was forced
to actually generate the bootstrap binary on a different machine by
cross-compiling. This bootstrapped copy has since stage 3 compiled itself
on the Symmetric and will be distributed as a set of binary images.
Accompanying the binaries will be several configuration files for both GCC
and GAS, a few diffs and full instructions on obtaining the latest sources
from the FSF that you can then use to regenerate the entire environment at
will, if you so desire.
Since I personally loath making tapes (and people that have counted on
me for tapes in the past have since come to loath me as well), the one
Symmetric owner in Germany has consented to do the grunt work. He also
has an ulterior motive in wanting to get the names and addresses of those
other 2 symmetric owners (it gets lonely being an orphan sometimes), so
he doesn't mind.
To get your hands on a copy of GCC for the Symmetric (soon to be a
collectors item), send appropriate media (50 Mbyte TEAC/SCS Cassette only!)
plus return postage in any suitably convertable western currency to:
Julian Stacey
Holz Strasse 27d
D 8000 Munich 5
Germany.
Phone: + 49 89 268616 (Timezone=GMT+1 10:00-21:00 local time).
Media: 50 Mbyte TEAC/SCS Cassette (No Cartridges, 9 track, FTP).
E-mail: stacey@guug.de
If you happen to have any interesting Symmetric lore (other than
the fact that they went out of business - he knows that already) to
share, I'm sure he'd appreciate hearing from you as well.
If a need exists, and you ask me nicely, I'll also put the whole mess up
for anonymous ftp someplace and save you the cost of a mailing. I'm not
doing this at the outset simply because I don't know if this offer is
going to drop into the void or not and I don't feel like pushing the
bits across for nothing.
With scarcely concealed anticipation,
I remain,
Jordan Hubbard