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On Thu, 5 Sep 2024 22:55 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:

> VMS was the last large operating system written in assembly language
> (and Bliss, which is somewhat higher-level, bit not much). 

Bliss could, I think, have been just as portable as C. But it mainly found 
favour inside DEC.