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Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Software Distribution
Message-ID: <1988Oct13.202604.22464@ateng.ateng.com>
Date: 14 Oct 88 00:26:03 GMT
References: <1988Sep29.192410.246@utzoo.uucp> <997@esunix.UUCP> <1988Oct11.162611.25330@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
>In article <997@esunix.UUCP> bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) writes:
>>If the program is developed on a machine with large ints (say 32 bits),
>>how does the programmer really know if it will work using small ints
>>without testing it on a machine with small ints? ...
>
>Competent programming by people who understand portability.  We know
>this works, we do it.

Just a confirmation and a testimonial here.  C News Alpha runs just fine
on a '286, thanks much to Messrs. Spencer and Collyer.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg             <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip>
A T Engineering             Me?  Speak for my company?  Surely you jest!
	   Beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers.