Re: Thompson's Plan 9 C compiler

p4tustin!point4.com!carl@uunet.uu.net (Carl W. Bergerson)
20 Aug 91 14:56:35 GMT

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From: p4tustin!point4.com!carl@uunet.uu.net (Carl W. Bergerson)
Keywords: design, performance
Organization: POINT 4 Data Corporation, Tustin, CA
References: 91-08-048
Date: 20 Aug 91 14:56:35 GMT

peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
  I think this is does a major disservice to Thompson's work. I'm not that
} familiar with the ETH compiler, but Turbo Pascal is a horrible example. Not
} only was it for a single architecture, . . .
                                        ^^^^^^


Oh, how quickly we forget, TP was originally for CPM based machines
and supported those systems through version 3. It wasn't until version
4 that TP became a DOS only compiler.
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