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Hardly. We're talking 22 years ago here. Why wouldn't they just go with the official, well-supported tools
by ChrisRR 5y ago
Hardly. We're talking 22 years ago here.
Why wouldn't they just go with the official, well-supported tools
- gumby 5y agoWell GCC was already eliminating a lot of proprietary tool chains in the embedded (as well as workstation) space. NeXT had paid us (Cygnus) for work on the gnu tool chain and it was by the time of the iPod the OS X toolchain (unlike the iPhone, the iPod used an embedded so not anything osx-ish). ARM was one of the few embedded vendors not paying for GCC support. Our UK office was down the road from them in Cambridge and they asked us around a lot but always wanted the word done for free.