Allen wrote:
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.
Perhaps he didn't know what he was talking about. Wouldn't be the first or last time that happened.