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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (rick)
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Subject: Re: Big Programs Hurt Performance
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 06:59:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 06:59:31 1987
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In article <1387@osiris.UUCP>, mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
> 	Now, mind you, I'm not arguing that we should all go forward into
> the past, but I'm starting to wonder if there'd be an advantage to running
> something lean and mean and REALLY getting response time. Like, say,
> Version 7 on a Sun 4.

The half serious thoughts around here: port down the VAX's native C
compiler to a <hot micro>.  Then cross compile and UPLOAD back to the
VAX.



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