[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Neil Rieck]

On Nov 6, 8:11 am, Bob Gezelter <gezel... at rlgsc.com> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 6:53 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
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>
> Neil,
>
> "Written in C" and "architecture independent" are two very different
> things. With all due respect, I will take exception to the "on any
> platform" observation in the original post.
>
Bob,

I couldn't agree more. But whenever a new hardware platform appears,
it is always *nix/c that gets there first because, as we all know, C
is not much more than a portable assembler. Is the first port any
good? Nope, it is usually just a very first step. Regarding your
comments on MACRO32, I guess I was thinking more of other weirdness
like BLISS.

I wonder what Cutler was think about.

NSR