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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: BIT Counting: C programming problem
Summary: All the world's a *what*?
Message-ID: <12571@diamond.BBN.COM>
Date: 25 Jan 89 04:10:45 GMT
References: <225@tityus.UUCP> <35329@think.UUCP> <8398@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge, MA
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In comp.lang.c (<8398@dasys1.UUCP>), ejablow@dasys1.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow) 
writes:
>[Barry Margolin suggests using a 64K lookup table for something.]
>
>That is a ridiculous idea.  For microscopic savings in speed, you
>waste 63K of space...what if it needs 400K to run effectively, or 
>even 640K...Besides, more and more people are going to multiprogramming 
>environments, even on PCs, like Windows or DesqView.  

Anyone else noticed that the "all the world's a VAX" mentality seems to be 
turning into an "all the world's a PC" mentality?  Positively frightening.
--
 Matt Landau			Waiting for a flash of enlightenment
 mlandau@bbn.com			  in all this blood and thunder