Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sccsi.com!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: The CPU with 3 brains---486 compatibility with 8008 Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 90 13:19:31 GMT References: <42737@mips.mips.COM> <1990Nov4.014901.23819@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Nov6.223738.13265@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <9333@b11.ingr.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 7 In article <9333@b11.ingr.com> lhughes@b11.ingr.com (Lawrence Hughes) writes: > Alas, Wordstar (not the "2000" gobbler, but the REAL one) may be one of the > last commercial products written (at least primarily) in assembly language. Hey, let's not blame the language for code bloat. The reason for code bloat is *features*, *features*, *features*. Remember, the PDP-11 UNIX kernel, written in C, was smaller than the EXE file for the latest Wordstar. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com