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From: drc@claris.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: one large array in Pascal
Message-ID: <4998@claris.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 88 14:36:34 GMT
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In article <3868@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>In article <1268@mcgill-vision.UUCP> der Mouse writes:
>>I know of at least one which isn't: TeX.
>>
>>Why did Knuth do it this way?  I can only guess; I would guess that
>>it's for some portability reason I am not aware of.

Wasn't TeX originally written is SAIL?  I seem to remember some reference to
it in the Pascal sources that I saw many years ago at JPL (gads, that seems
like a lifetime ago -- working on Univac 1100s, IBM 3032s, ModComps and VAXen).

Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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