From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-23 19:02:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B5CD72B.67DBD945@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? References: <3B5F3C2B@MailAndNews.com> <3B586AF9.FE610CFD@home.com> <3B59AD85.318F5BD6@nbi.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 02:02:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.193.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 995940139 24.141.193.224 (Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:02:19 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:02:19 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10488 Date: 2001-07-24T02:02:19+00:00 List-Id: Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > 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 > -- > Growing older is compulsory. Growing up isn't. You're thinking maybe of Win95 and cousins. The NT, 2000, XP family are not assembly language based. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg