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From: devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Intel && C (was: Passing (char *) NULL)
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 15:08:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 15:08:36 1987
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In article <2163@xanth.UUCP>, kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
> Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed how C is being warped, made
> ugly and complex, because ONE microprocessor manufacturer [Intel] couldn't
> see fit to provide a flat, linear address space?

 This argument boils down to "If 'C' was good enough for a PDP-11, it
should be good enough for any machine!".  There are changes for many
different machine architectures, not just chips with 64K-itis.

			A Modern Story
			--------------
     See Intel.  See Intel chips.  See person wearing 3-piece suit
     counting the millions of Intel chip computers in marketplace.
     See person wearing 3-piece suit hiring computer nerds.  See
     computer nerds get paid big bucks to work with C on Intel chips.
     See C computer program.  Run program run.  See person wearing
     3-piece suit getting big sales and now counting millions of bucks.

Prologue: This story has been told at Microsoft, Lattice, Lotus, IBM...
And may be coming to a theater near you.