[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[invalid]

On 2018-08-01, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2018-08-01 19:16:30 +0000, invalid said:
>
>> On 2018-08-01, Simon Clubley 
>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>> On 2018-07-31, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> On 7/31/2018 4:21 PM, invalid wrote:
>>>>> The problem is you don't have any knowledge of the environment you're 
>>>>> lecturing about.
>>>> 
>>>> Compilers are not or at least do not need to be environment specific. 
>>>> They are only source language and target ISA specific.
>> 
>> No, again that is an oversimplification.
>> 
>> Compilers are source language, ISA, and OS specific. And that is where 
>> you keep shooting yourself in the ass arguing with me. I get it that 
>> you understand source languages and the idea of ISAs. What you don't 
>> realize is you don't know anything about the OS or the environment 
>> you're arguing about.
>
> Compilers have gotten a whole lot more portable in the last years, and 
> a whole lot more flexible.

Yeah but we're not talking about compilers in general. I was answering a
question specific to the OS I know about. I'm listening to the details about
ISAs and OS *I* don't know about.