>> I think that chips manufacturers should provide compilers,
>> assemblers, OS's and other software tools for free.
>>
Heh.  Come to think of it, as far as I know Intel has never offered
free SW development tools for the x86, and that's one of the most
successful computer architectures of all time...  When it came out
you could only program it in basic :-(  After a while MIT published
a portable assembler targeted to the x86, but it didn't use the
intel-published syntax...

Perhaps they're making up for it now with their rather reasonable
support of linux?  OTOH, they still sell their own x86 compiler as
well as support gcc...

BillW
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