OT -mostly - - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Jun 1999

On Jun 18, 16:39, Zane H. Healy wrote:
...
  Pete wrote
 > On Jun 18, 19:07, Allison J Parent wrote: 
...
  > > VMS, all of the Unix clones,
 >
 > All cost extra, unless you mean gcc etc.  None of HP/UX, Solaris, IRIX,
 > AIX, come with more than the minimum required to relink the kernel,
 > although you can buy the development tools separately.
 >
 > > RT-11 to name a few still provide full
 > > development environment.
 >
 > That's certainly valid.  The exception that proves the rule, perhaps :-)
...

 Ah, but does this not actually fall under the same catagory as the above
 comments about UNIX?  Or does RT-11 ship with more than Macro-11?  You kind
...
  of have to have Macro-11 in order to run a SYSGEN I
believe. 
True, but a fair amount of development work is/was done with MACRO-11.
 However, very few people would even contemplate writing assembler for a
UNIX system (except for very small very low level things).  18 months ago I
had to write some applications stuff in MIPS assembler for IRIX, and was
disgusted to find that SGI's C compiler could do just as good a job as I
could, most of the time.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York