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Re: [SLE] Gnome disappointment
- From: Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:50:25 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <1131641404.7599.44.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
Cheers, Dave
> 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.
Cheers, Dave
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