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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: DECsystem-20 (sort of...)
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Date: 9 Aug 89 02:52:27 GMT
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In article <33837@apple.Apple.COM> kchen@Apple.COM (Kok Chen) writes:
>Seriously, <MRC>'s mentioning all those PDP-10 instructions reminds me
>why I hated writing a compiler for that machine!

Another reason why people hated writing compilers for the PDP-10 was
that they knew that all the good programmers would always program in
assembly language; and, if forced to write a program in a high-level
language, would continually bitch & moan to the compiler writer about
how poor the generated code was compared to what they could hand-code.

:-) :-) :-)

It should be noted that Kok Chen was the original author of the good
PDP-10 C compiler.

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