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From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Unix and C
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Date: 20 Nov 90 15:05:11 GMT
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ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wiz) writes:
> operating system in machine code?  Hint: A long time.  Unix is based
> on the idea that when you port it to a new machine you only need to re-write
> the kernel (The lowest level) of the OS,  thus making it easily portable.

In fact, you re-write a great deal less than that.  Porting a kernel to
a new machine is nothing like writing a new kernel.

ian