From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   (snip on C compilers, where our moderator wrote)   
      
   > [We do forget that Ritchie's C compiler ran in 12K bytes of RAM,   
   > two passes plus assembler, and generated quite respectable code   
   > for the PDP-11. -John]   
      
   I wonder how that compares to the PL/I (F) compiler in 44K?   
      
   Not that you would want to run it in 44K, but rumors are that it   
   was designed to, and will do it.   
      
   At the end of every compilation, it tells the minimum region   
   that will allow it to keep the symbol table in memory.   
      
   -- glen   
      
   [The F meant it was supposed to run on a 64K machine, so 44K of   
   available core sounds about right.  PL/I D squeezed a PL/I subset   
   into a 16K machine. -John]   
      
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