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   Hans-Peter Diettrich to George Neuner   
   Re: Guidelines for instruction set desig   
   13 May 09 20:59:54   
   
   From: DrDiettrich1@aol.com   
      
   George Neuner schrieb:   
      
   > [I could have sworn that Ritchie said that it worked first on the 635, but   
   > his 1993 paper says it was indeed PDP-11 first, then ported to the 635 and   
   > IBM 360/370 by 1973. http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/chistory.ps -John]   
      
   When I was coding for a pdp-11, I found that C is a pretty high-level   
   assembler for such machines. It's easy to predict the machine code from   
   the C code, including the instruction addressing modes.   
      
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