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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pointer representation (was: Re: effect of free())
Message-ID: <11072@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Sep 89 11:50:17 GMT
References: <319@cubmol.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU> <3756@buengc.BU.EDU> <29171@news.Think.COM> <2079@munnari.oz.au> <29250@news.Think.COM> <206@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <206@titania.warwick.ac.uk> cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes:
>Who remembers the Burroughs B6700, ...

I do!  It was a nice system.  The architecture made it somewhat difficult
to implement Fortran (and, I would suspect, C), but it was accomplished
nevertheless.  Burroughs gambled on Algol taking over, once it had been
approved as an international standard.  That may have occurred to some
degree in Europe, but over here people followed IBM's lead..