reality check

[Fred Cisin]

> > When the MICROS~1 stooge told me that NT was "all portable C code", he got
> > offended when I told him that THAT is an oxymoron.

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Bert Thomas wrote:
> I'm confused. Are you saying that it is impossible to write portable C code?

It is certainly POSSIBLE,  particularly if you accept conditional
compilation in the definition.

Many application programs can be quite portable at a source code level.
But, there are very few people around who can do that at an OS level.