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From: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
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Subject: Re: Ada Operating System
Date: 24 Feb 2002 02:42:03 GMT
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On 23 Feb 2002 14:30:57 -0600, Larry Kilgallen <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote:
>> Because GCC handles pretty much every
>> platform known to man, as long as it's got 32 bits and runs some form of
>> Unix (or DOS or Windows or VMS.)
> 
> "Some form of Unix (or DOS or Windows or VMS)" seems to me quite a
> bit shy of "every platform known to man".  It omits HP/MPE, MVS
> and OS/400.  

That's why "runs some form of ..." modifies "every platform known to
man". (And GCC does target MVS.) True, GCC doesn't handle archaic
systems and misses some Big Iron. In any case, since we're talking
compilers here, do you know of another compiler that targets Unix, DOS,
Windows and VMS non-trivially?

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