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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
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Subject: Re: Speed costs (Re: MWC's Coherent - A Lemon...)
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Date: 26 May 90 20:36:02 GMT
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chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>[[ Followups to comp.arch ]]
>
>According to jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau):
>>peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>>Did you know that C-news runs in small model?
>>
>>So what if C-News runs in small model.
>>A vast majority of C compilers won't.
>
>Competent C compilers can be written in small model.  I once worked on
>a C compiler that ran on a PDP-11, which as everyone knows, is limited
>to 64K of data under most (all?) Unix implementations.

Which brings forth the argument in favor of progress.  How many people
actually use PDP-11's anymore?  I've seen a few go in and out at garage sales.
 
     // JCA

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