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   Kaz Kylheku to mac   
   Re: Historical Implementations to Garbag   
   07 May 14 05:34:02   
   
   From: kaz@kylheku.com   
      
   On 2014-05-06, mac  wrote:   
   > The runtime system borrowed the teletype (stdout) buffer for temporary   
   > storage during GC. The same trick was used for Dartmouth XPL.   
      
   So if debug prints were needed out of the GC itself, the device   
   could be used unbuffered?   
   [If you needed to.  Things worked a lot better if you wrote in large chunks so   
   you   
   didn't have to get swapped in for each character. -John]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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