Unix and C

[Floyd Davidson]

In article <1990Nov10.124655.797 at bushido.uucp> dbc at 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?


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