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From: schanck@harmonica.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Schanck)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS
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Date: 29 Apr 89 05:39:57 GMT
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In article <101907@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>Also OS/2 is under a lot of time pressure and written nearly entirely in
>C rather than assembler. The combination has the same effect it has on
>UNIX (eg lots of code expansion). The compactness question never enters
>into the picture.

How does the "written nearly entirely in C" statement jibe with an
earlier post (forget which) which mentioned OS/2 containing ~100,000
lines of assembler? It does make sense according to a rumor I heard:
one of the reasons it took so long to get done was that the Microsoft
guys had to teach the IBMers to use C -- everybody knows how fond of
assembler IBM is ;-)

Chris

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"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something."
                        --- "The Princess Bride"
Christopher Schanck (schanck@cis.ohio-state.edu)