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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 16 bit C compilers generating 8 bit code
Keywords: Aztec, Orca, APW, C
Message-ID: <37288@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 89 07:26:02 GMT
References: <4098@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <4185@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <4029@puff.cs.wisc.edu> <733@batman.moravian.EDU>
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In article <733@batman.moravian.EDU> nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) writes:
>if you talk to mike westerfield again, you'll find out that apple wanted the
>linker to be portable.  My guess is that they wanted it to be portable so that
>MPW IIgs could eventually be built, and mike's linker eventually evolved into
>LinkIIGS.

Actually, I don't believe LinkIIGS (either the MPW IIgs or the native GS
version) was based on the Byte Works linker.
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