19 Jun
1999
19 Jun
'99
6:03 a.m.
On Jun 19, 2:53, Tony Duell wrote:
It doesn't matter (IMHO) _why_ Macro-11 was
included, the fact is that it
was. And it's possible to write programs in Macro-11, so it counts as a
programming tool.
For the unices mentioned earlier, I believe that cc, an assembler, etc
were _not_ included with the OS. So there is no way of writing programs
with the software as supplied.
Usually there would be only part of the compiler, and a linker, but no
assembler; and in some cases the linker would be a cut-down version. For
example, in IRIX, you only need to able to link COFF executables to rebuild
the kernel, whereas the normal linker/loader handles ELF executables.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York