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

[Michael Kraemer]

Neil Rieck schrieb:

> True, but if Cutler wanted to immediately write VMS in C then I'm
> thinking he must had a good reason for it. We all know that UNIX
> enjoyed an immediate debugging when it was first rewritten from
> assembler to "C". I wonder (in hindsight) if all these secondary and
> tertiary components (like BLISS and MACRO) might be an indication of
> too many chefs in the VMS kitchen :-)

The dish was different.
Unix was designed to run on just about any hardware,
whereas VMS' sole purpose was to help sell VAXen.
In the latter case one doesn't care much about
portability.