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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.              DoDi              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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