C is portable by design and runs on many architectures. It doesn't need 512Kb of RAM and it doesn't depend on Unix.
From: "cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> To: "cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 1:20:56 PM Subject: Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC On 5/29/2020 12:42 PM, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > At 10:59 AM 5/29/2020, Jecel Assumpcao Jr via cctech wrote: >> The modern variation of the Turing Tarpit. At least they come to this >> illusion honestly given that you even have people who think implementing >> Forth in C is the way to go. > > What, are you saying that someone couldn't write some Perl or Python > to translate the GW BASIC assembler to portable C? > > - John Is C portable because most the machines the same kind,8/16/32 bits with greater than 512kb ram? or that C runs on more kinds machines? Or is C portable because of unix? BTW Microsoft also had Fortan, You don't hear much about that. Ben.
