*nix on "classic" systems

[Steven N. Hirsch]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Apr 14, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
>>> SPARC is better, indeed for C++ or ANSI C on SunOS4 you will probably have 
>>> to use gcc, since Sun's ANSI and C++ compilers are both hard to come by 
>>> and nodelocked.
>> 
>> Are you talking about the SUNWspro tools?  Those are available for free 
>> download from Sun.  I think they call it Studio 11, or something like that.
>
> This is correct...it has been free and non-nodelocked for some time now. 
> The current release of Sun Studio is 11, and it's available Linux on x86, and 
> for Solaris on both SPARC and x86.  It's a fantastic compiler suite...it's 
> all I use for my development.

A _Linux_ version?  That I was unaware of.  Did they implement GNU 
compiler extensions like Intel have?

Steve

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