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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The CPU with 3 brains---486 compatibility with 8008
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Date: 10 Nov 90 06:50:29 GMT
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In article <9333@b11.ingr.com> lhughes@b11.ingr.com (Lawrence Hughes) writes:
the real reason all software today is slow:

>Welcome to the wonderful world of multi-megabyte executables that barely fit
>in 2 MB systems, barely crawl on 25 MHz CPUs and won't even run on any known
>diskette system. Compliments of brothers Kernigan and Ritchie.
(It's Kernighan, btw.)

So, tell me, Larry, why are programs written in C faster than ones written
in assembly?

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