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Maybe but there's a reason C emerged as the winner because none of those systems really has an established reference model to look at. C has several - e.g. UNIX
by sys_64738 8y ago
Maybe but there's a reason C emerged as the winner because none of those systems really has an established reference model to look at. C has several - e.g. UNIX being written in C.
- pjmlp 8y agoUNIX being available for free with source code is what helped C gain adoption. The nomimal fee universities had to pay AT&T was meaningless compared to what something like VMS or OS/360 would cost them.