Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!floyd From: floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Unix and C Message-ID: <1990Nov11.072404.7312@hayes.ims.alaska.edu> Date: 11 Nov 90 07:24:04 GMT References: <4458@mint39.UUCP> <1990Nov10.124655.797@bushido.uucp> Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks Lines: 17 In article <1990Nov10.124655.797@bushido.uucp> dbc@bushido.uucp (Dave Caswell) writes: >.>>>How can Unix be written in C ? I thought all OS`s had to be written >.> [ ... ] >.>Why? Because it makes it very portable. Any machine that has a C >.>compiler and a few kernal routines (actually a fair number) can run Unix >.>fairly easily. If Unix were written in assembly, it would have to be >.>completely rewritten for every new computer it runs on. > >Unless of course it was written in 386 assembler. It's portable. To my 68020? -- Floyd L. Davidson floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu floydd@chinet.chi.il.us Salcha, AK 99714 connected by paycheck to Alascom, Inc. When *I* speak for them, one of us will be *out* of business in a hurry.