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From: s8922967@ipc09.tmc.edu (Murray John GILBERT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Time costs more than RAM and CPU
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Date: 20 May 91 05:47:03 GMT
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that program that was 150K to just do a linefeed on a printer

Odds on that it was fortran, the tiniest programs we do here on the SUN IPCs
in fortran 77 are that size.
( little choice as far as language goes - we more or less have to use fortran
for the Numeric Analysis course I'm doing)

adios,
	Murray