[Info-vax] VMS documentation, was: Re: Special deals on Tape Drives

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-03-14, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/14/22 14:48, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Also, in Unix (thanks to C being the lowest supported language)
>
> Every Unix I have ever used supported native assembler.  I think that
> qualifies as lower.  Or don't you consider assembler as a language?
>

We had this discussion recently. On Unix, once outside of the very
lowest and localised parts of the kernel, that's generally confined
to compiler generated code and _very_ specialist bits of asm inserts
to (for example) get to CPU-specific registers that you cannot get
to from within C.

In Unix, there's nothing like the assembler friendly (but portable
horrible) API interfaces you get in VMS and that's a _really_ good thing.

Simon.

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