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

[Paul Raulerson]

On Nov 9, 2009, at 6:51 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:

> 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".
>

True - but very little. Porting to s/390 involved something like 3,500  
lines of assembler
code. That's about it.

That's for Linux of course, which is more portable than Unix, but  
still.  s/390 is not Intel by
any stretch of the imagination.


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