Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!taumet!steve From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Unix and C Message-ID: <511@taumet.com> Date: 10 Nov 90 16:29:38 GMT References: <4458@mint39.UUCP> <1929@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego Lines: 13 boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes: >>Yes ... Why and how can UNIX be written in C? I'd also like to know. >Ever hear of the Church-Turing thesis? Yes, and it is not relevant in the least. C-T says (in effect) that a general-purpose computer can do anything a special-purpose computer can do. This has nothing whatever to do with writing a specific program in a specific language. -- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com