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From: ken@argus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Assembly Language
Message-ID: <1006@argus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 09:21:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 18 09:21:26 1987
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In article <905@edge.UUCP>, doug@edge.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
> In the Unix world, you can probably sell this idea.  In the non-Unix world,
> little details keep getting in the way.  Details like the biggest micro-
> controllers available (such as the 68HC11A8) only have 8K of ROM, and they
> cost tons more than the more common 2K chips like the 8049.  And if the
> company's gonna sell a few million of whatever the chips are going in,
> programming it in assembly language will save tens of millions of dollars.

This reminds me of something I read somewhere else.  Ada compiler writers
are having a fun time because a lot of applications go into embedded systems
where the criteria are to make it run with at least a given performance
and make it fit into 64K (!) of memory.  Compilers are getting better,
but people need to express things in a higher level language to get
these compilers to do their work better.
: -- 
: Doug Pardee, Edge Computer Corp; ihnp4!mot!edge!doug, seismo!ism780c!edge!doug



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