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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:27:49 +0200
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Warren:

> OS/2 died a grizzly death because it was too costly to port/extend it to
> newer platforms (I understand it was largely assembler code). You never
> saw  OS/2 on the Alpha, but you did see windows there. Hmmm... I wonder
> what the difference was? ;-)

According to my knowledge, Windows is largely written in
assembler, so I suppose that the reason was something else.
Maybe that the Alpha architecture competed with the Power-2
architecture on which IBM runs AIX?

Jacob
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