From: utzoo!watmath!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!grunwald Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: 8086 C code query - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.221 Posted: Tue Jun 29 18:26:41 1982 Received: Wed Jun 30 23:57:50 1982 Reply-To: $s #R:peri:-12000:uiucdcs:10400003:000:356 uiucdcs!grunwald Jun 29 17:45:00 1982 I think that MicroSoft is porting XENIX, which is a UNIX lookalike to a wide variety of machines, the 8086 included. As far as the code produced by the C compiler -- for the 68000, the compiler that we have (the one from MIT), produces very reasonable code. It's fast enough to do just about anything you want in C, with proper use of register variables.