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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <d25c4548-34e1-4d28-b7a0-ef99b9f8683f at 37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> 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.

   In every UNIX port, there's some small architecture dependent code
   that has to be worked.  No language can change that.  If that
   weren't so, we'd probably say "UNIX recompile" instead of "UNIX
   port".