From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9352 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2004 20:22:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 9341 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2004 20:22:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.libertysurf.net) (213.36.80.91) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 2004 20:22:13 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (213.36.55.240) by mail.libertysurf.net (6.5.033) id 3FFB02470113E034; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:20:16 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Eric Botcazou To: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:22:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: Scott Robert Ladd , Gabriel Dos Reis , Nick Burrett , Marc Espie , geoffk@apple.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <90200277-4301-11D8-BDBD-000A95B1F520@apple.com> <400C1D07.9020300@coyotegulch.com> <400C2789.4070908@gnat.com> In-Reply-To: <400C2789.4070908@gnat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200401192120.53057.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01368.txt.bz2 > Here is a suggestion: > > For $399 you can buy from Dell a brand new Dimension 2400 with a 2.4GHz > Celeron, 400MHz front bus, 256 meg of memory, 40GB disk, 17" monitor, > and 48x CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. I have always been amazed by the reasonings starting with "you can buy". Why in the first place should you buy a brand new computer to do anything? Why can't the typical 2-3 years old model be sufficient? > That's a pretty reasonable machine at a very reasonable price. For a professional developer based in the US, certainly. I'm not sure GCC should primarily target such a population though. -- Eric Botcazou