reality check

[Joshua Alexander Dersch]

Fred Cisin writes: 

>> > 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. 
> 
> 

Well, I'd wager that Microsoft must have at least partially succeeded at 
producing portable C code, since over the course of NT history it's run on 
x86, MIPS, Alpha, PPC, Amd64 and Itanium platforms. (I even have a build of 
a full 64-bit version of Whistler for the Alpha lying around...) NT has a 
pretty decent hardware abstraction layer. 

Then again all of us here at MICROS~1 (where we love our 8.3 filenames and 
it's still 1995) are stooges so it must have been Dave Cutler who did all 
that for us :). 

Well, back to stealing code from other companies...
 - Josh