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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC hard to program?
Message-ID: <3652@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 14 Jul 90 22:58:55 GMT
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 >The only thing I don't like about this approach is that you have to live with
 >the poorest machine/os/compiler implementations you want to run your software
 >on.  

And you know of some other approach to running your software on the same
set of machine/os/compiler implementations that *doesn't* require this? 
(No, "choose a smaller set of implementations" doesn't count; that's the
same approach, just with a smaller set of machines you consider
"interesting".)