Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!fwi.uva.nl!kim!freek From: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring) Message-ID: <416@fwi.uva.nl> Date: 12 Feb 90 20:46:47 GMT References: <15108@cs.yale.edu> <430@adiron.UUCP> Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl Reply-To: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam Lines: 13 X-Dragon: Orm Embar In article melling@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >How much work would it be for software companies to support a RISC version >of their NeXT software? I would think that most of their software is written >in C, or another high level language, and would need nothing more than >a recompile. How much assembly level optimization is done in most commmercial >software? As far as I know WriteNow, the default word processor on the NeXT, is completely coded in assembly. There's glory for you! -- Freek "the Pistol Major" Wiedijk Path: uunet!fwi.uva.nl!freek #P:+/ = #+/P?*+/ = i<<*+/P?*+/ = +/i<<**P?*+/ = +/(i<<*P?)*+/ = +/+/(i<<*P?)**