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|    Dennis Boone to All    |
|    Re: ancient PL/I, was fledgling assemble    |
|    24 Mar 23 22:51:32    |
      From: drb@ihatespam.msu.edu               > OK, the IBM PL/I (F) compiler, for what many consider a bloated        > language, is designed to run (maybe not well) in 64K.        > At the end of every compilation it tells how much memory was        > used, how much available, and how much to keep the symbol table        > in memory.              It's... 30-some passes, iirc?              De       [Well, phases or overlays but yes, IBM was really good at slicing compilers       into pieces they could overlay. -John]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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