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Re: [SLE] Gnome disappointment
- From: "Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd " <adamvaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:06:41 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <E1EaPFM-0005Jh-2X@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hello from Adam in NYC
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From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subj: Re: [SLE] Gnome disappointment
Date: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:18 pm
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Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 11:01 am, Allen wrote:
>> What you do the small speed boost may not matter, but in the 80s my
>> teacher was writing code for the 68K processor and you couldn't use C for
>> that.
Actually, there were ports for Forth and Small-C available for the 68k platform during that time period.
Both languages also were designed to be compiled by themselves (not bad). The Forth memory footprint was within 64k, I think even 32k.
The Motorola 68k was one of the most friendly processors available for programming because all of the registers were orthogonal.
You could do a multiply instruction, for example, with any of its registers. You could not do this with older 8 bit systems.
Small-C and Tiny-C , both described in that old programming tombe Dr. Dobbs, served for two purposes.
They were an alternative to the original lousy assemblers designed by the chip manufacturers.
They also became a universal assembler. The goal was to write programs that could run with no changes onto different platforms. It took a long time but it is true now, although ANSI C, C++ made lousy examples.
Notice that nobody talks about it, that C is a universal assembler.
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subj: Re: [SLE] Gnome disappointment
Date: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:18 pm
Size: 1K
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 11:01 am, Allen wrote:
>> What you do the small speed boost may not matter, but in the 80s my
>> teacher was writing code for the 68K processor and you couldn't use C for
>> that.
Actually, there were ports for Forth and Small-C available for the 68k platform during that time period.
Both languages also were designed to be compiled by themselves (not bad). The Forth memory footprint was within 64k, I think even 32k.
The Motorola 68k was one of the most friendly processors available for programming because all of the registers were orthogonal.
You could do a multiply instruction, for example, with any of its registers. You could not do this with older 8 bit systems.
Small-C and Tiny-C , both described in that old programming tombe Dr. Dobbs, served for two purposes.
They were an alternative to the original lousy assemblers designed by the chip manufacturers.
They also became a universal assembler. The goal was to write programs that could run with no changes onto different platforms. It took a long time but it is true now, although ANSI C, C++ made lousy examples.
Notice that nobody talks about it, that C is a universal assembler.
Adam
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