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From: jack@boring.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  Two Birds with One Stone
Message-ID: <6698@boring.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 19:46:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 19:46:34 1985
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In article <219@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) writes:
[Replying to an article about Jim Cotrell's new machine]
>  But it is not much harder to
>write C code that would port to your hypothetical example
>machine (19-bit shorts, base 3, etc.) than it is to write
>it for a VAX.  
 One problem. Does the ANSI standard specify what left-
and right-shifts do, w.r.t. arithmatic values? And &|!^ etc?

:-), of course. Followups on boolean arithmatic (if you can call it
that) on terniary machines should go to net.arch.
-- 
	Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
	The shell is my oyster.