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Appendix III
GnuRad was developed on an Intel 486 platform using the
RedHat
Linux
operating system (a Unix environment). Tools used in this environment included
many of the Free Software Foundation programs such as GCC compiler, GNU Emacs,
GDB (Debugger), RCS (Revision Control System, and many of the other
miscellaneous items (grep, tar, ls, cp, etc). Other tools used in this project
were the X11 R6 window environment and the AUIS word processor. The advantages
of this system were: a true 32 bit multitasking OS, stability of Unix (I never
encountered the system crashing), economics (all of the tools and the OS were
free or near free), and portability. If further development of GnuRad is done,
it is recommended that a Unix environment be used, such as
Linux
, since it will save many hours of work on the developer.
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