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If so could assembly be the best systems language? It is, but it's so non-portable. UNIX was a good compromise. By using C, you only needed to change the extre
by simonblack 3y ago
If so could assembly be the best systems language?
It is, but it's so non-portable. UNIX was a good compromise. By using C, you only needed to change the extremely low-level C stuff from one assembly-language to another. The rest of C and the operating system remains the same.
That's why the Linux kernel is available for such a huge range of different CPUs.