Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!unixhub!shelby!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!quest!digibd!rhealey From: rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: The CPU with 3 brains---486 compatibility with 8008 Message-ID: <1990Nov16.171735.1867@digibd.com> Date: 16 Nov 90 17:17:35 GMT References: <1990Nov6.223738.13265@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <9333@b11.ingr.com> <8658@scolex.sco.COM> Organization: Digiboard Incorporated, St. Louis Park, MN Lines: 19 In article <8658@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes: > >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? > Because few people know how to write "good" assembly code anymore... Why bother when you have a 2 Meg compiler to think for you? -Rob #include