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[Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:50:04PM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:01 -0500, 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.
> 
> Not sure what you mean here? It was and is certainly possible to use C
> on the 68000. Just one example was a machine called the 'Unicorn' from a
> company here in the UK called Torch. It not only ran a C compiler, it's
> native operating system was Unix.

Weird. They had to use Assembler for pretty much everything. They used
those processors and.... I don't even know which OS, but they had a lot of
Unix.

He told me back when he did this that Vi would only show one line at a time
and you'd have like thousands of lines of code and have to check something
a few lines up so you'd have to give the command to view it up in that area
or something.

I installed Linux on a box for him and showed him Vim 


 
> Cheers, Dave
> 
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