Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!tgould!iwm From: iwm@ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 8086 design goals (and Pascal) Message-ID: Date: 2 Jun 89 19:52:08 GMT References: <912@aber-cs.UUCP> <3312@bd.sei.cmu.edu> <362@verdix.verdix.com> <15766@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> <4230@ficc.uu.net> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College Lines: 27 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net's message of 18 May 89 13:58:49 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.45.10 of Tue Jan 12 1988 on amvax5 (berkeley-unix) In article <4230@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: One thing I don't understand in this discussion... what feature of Pascal made them think no object should ever be larger than 64K? Possibly the Berkeley Pascal compiler's use of 16-bit indexing for arrays :-) Ian W Moor UUCP: uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!iwm ARPA: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk JANET: iwm@uk.ac.ic.doc Department of Computing We don't need no documentation, Imperial College. We don't need no source control, 180 Queensgate No dark sarcasm in the boardroom, London SW7 UK. Manager! leave those programmers alone! -- Ian W Moor UUCP: uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!iwm ARPA: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk JANET: iwm@uk.ac.ic.doc Department of Computing We don't need no documentation, Imperial College. We don't need no source control, 180 Queensgate No dark sarcasm in the boardroom, London SW7 UK. Manager! leave those programmers alone!