Re: assembly in future C standard [OT]

Andrew Poelstra said:

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 09:01 -0700, james of tucson wrote:
Andrew Poelstra wrote:

The chances of someone installing UNIX tools on their system seems
lower than that of them installing cgywin or just plain Linux. And
both of those chances are still pretty low right now.

Chances? Anybody that wants to is free to run cygwin or linux. That's
the whole point. I don't see where there is any chance involved.

The chances that they know they can, then. Or the chances that
they're willing, or allowed to. (Perhaps they're at school and
are using public computers on which they have no administrative
permissions).

Or perhaps they're working in a company which likes to keep careful control
over what software is installed on its computers, for legal and safety
reasons. Almost all the companies I've worked for in the UK are like this.

People in general haven't figured out that all the world ain't
a Wintel.

That too. Try running cygwin on a 4341. :-)

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