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From: gary@darth.UUCP (Gary Wisniewski)
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Subject: Re: You can do anything in (state your favorite word processor)
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Date: Thu, 21-Aug-86 01:09:36 EDT
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In article <158@tcdmath.UUCP> jaymin@tcdmath.UUCP (Joe Jaquinta) writes:
>
>We've seen sorting in nroff, prime number generation in TeX, does
>anybody know if anyone has written an operating system in a word
>processing language yet?

I've written a relocating linker in TECO-11.  There was nothing else
available for writing someting like a linker.  Object files were loaded
into Q-buffers; a Q-buffer was reserved for a list of external symbols
and publics ... the final program was generated in octal in the main
buffer then converted in one fell swoop.

I've seen EMACS keyboard macros to calculate polynomial coefficients
to simplify implementation of Cody-Waite numerical algorithms for
transcentental functions, but never got to look at the expansions (they
may have been cheating).

Any WordStar stories?


Gary Wisniewski
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