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   XPost: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers, openwatcom.users.c_cpp   
   From: Peter@Iron-Spring.com   
      
   On 3/25/10 03:02, Nick Keighley wrote:   
   > On 24 Mar, 23:40, Phil Carmody    
   > wrote:   
   >> Dann Corbit  writes:   
   >>> In article <1e27d5ee-a1b1-45d9-9188-   
   >>> 63ab37398...@d37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,   
   >>> nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com says...   
   >>   
   >>>> On 23 Mar, 20:56, glen herrmannsfeldt  wrote:   
   >>>>> In alt.sys.pdp10 Richard Bos  wrote:   
   >>>>> (snip)   
   >>   
   >>>>>> That crossposting was, for once, not asinine. It served as a nice   
   >>>>>> example why, even now, Leenux weenies are not correct when they insist   
   >>>>>> that C has a flat memory model and all pointers are just numbers.   
   >>   
   >>>>> Well, you could also read the C standard to learn that.   
   >>   
   >>>> but if you say that you get accused of language lawyering.   
   >>>> "Since IBM stopped making 360s no C program ever needs to run on such   
   >>>> a platform"   
   >>   
   >>> We have customers who are running their business on harware from the mid   
   >>> 1980s.  It may sound ludicrous, but it if solves all of their business   
   >>> needs, and runs solid 24x365, why should they upgrade?   
   >>   
   >> Because they could run an equivalently computationally powerful   
   >> solution with various levels of redundancy and fail-over protection,   
   >> with a power budget sensibly measured in mere Watts?   
   >   
   > does it have a Coral compiler?   
      
   There's a market for someone.   
      
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