Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!shelby!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!brian From: brian@NCoast.ORG (Brian Keith Gaiser) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Message-ID: <1991Feb14.215626.7408@NCoast.ORG> Date: 14 Feb 91 21:56:26 GMT Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) Lines: 31 In article <23638@netcom.COM> resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick) writes: >In article <21787.27b47dd7@cluster@ukc.ac.uk> cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager) writes: >>In article <23245@netcom.COM>, resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick) writes: >> >>Is it? Do you have proof? I am sure it is mostly C. Anyway, UNIX has *some* >>assembler too....I speak as a UNIX user of 16 years. >> > Looks more like C to me. Imagine doing all that structure manipulation > in assembler! Ugh! > > > Actually, alot of OS/2 V1.0 to V2.0 is assembler, and 286 at that. This is the reason that OS/2 is not more *portable* accross platforms. OS/2 Version 3.0 is supposed to be mostly written in C. This opens the product up to the RISC and other non-intel platforms. Disclaimer : "That's what I heard !" -- --------- THE GIZZ ---------- | | | Brian Gaiser 216/292-0400 | | x3471 |