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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: of course!
Message-ID: <1409@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Nov 89 16:10:24 GMT
References: <11674@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <11674@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>Many implementations have severe constraints on stack size.

Some at least.

>For example, on Gould PowerNode series running UTX-32 (based on 4.3BSD),
>the stack size is fixed at link time, typically only a few kilobytes.  
 ...
>The three major alternatives are:

(4) Don't buy such machines.  We all know that all the world is not a vax,
    and that we mustn't dereference null pointers, but some machines just
    aren't worth the pain, given that there are plenty of sane systems
    available.  In my opinion, Goulds are among them.

-- Richard

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