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.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sat Jun 19 1999 - 05:49:23 BST