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From: rej@cornell.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.lang,net.lang.c,net.unix
Subject: Re: Assembler vs C
Message-ID: <7623@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 09:44:56 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 19 09:44:56 1984
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C can replace assembler.  The only use for assembler on VAXen is to
write the context switching routines and to improve the speed of a
few commonly used subroutines.  People that I know programming in C
on a 68000 never seem to use assembler.  The Cornell Program Synthesiser
is written in C and runs on many PDP-11s across campus.  Its device
drivers and overlay routines are written in C, with only the process
switching routines being in assembler.

Ralph Johnson  cornell!rej