Unix and C

Stephen Clamage steve at taumet.com
Sun Nov 11 03:29:38 AEST 1990


boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes:

>>Yes ... Why and how can UNIX be written in C?  I'd also like to know.

>Ever hear of the Church-Turing thesis?

Yes, and it is not relevant in the least.  C-T says (in effect) that
a general-purpose computer can do anything a special-purpose computer
can do.  This has nothing whatever to do with writing a specific program
in a specific language.
-- 

Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve at taumet.com



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