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From: steve@gondor.UUCP (Stephen J. Williams)
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Subject: Re: [Benchmarks and C/Unix]
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Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 23:37:10 EST
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In article <2107@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
>> Here I will agree with you.  In particular, languages that make the
>> machine appear to have a uniform address space (C is a good example)
>> require kludges for performance on machines without that (80286).
>
>This brings up an interesting topic that I was just thinking about last
>night.  Viz., how might one provide better architectural support for C?

Why would one want to?  Wasn't C sort of written for PDP-11s?

--Scal