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In article <205@puma.ge.com> jnixon@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (John F Nixon) writes:
>...
>OK, I won't mention it... :-).  BTW, VAX C is an inferior conpiler, period.
>

Not if you happen to have VAX hardware.  For that matter VAX C is
completely portable between VMS and Ultrix, if you haven't made
any (direct) RTL or system service calls.
 
Are we gonna discuss RISC vs. CISC now, too?  8-)