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From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: porting to a Prime seen as a probable negative experience
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Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 01:41:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 01:41:25 1984
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Hmm, it sounds like porting to a 286 is also seen as a probable
negative experience.  And the same problem precurs on the "large
model" 8086/8088/etc.

A very talented compiler writer of my acquaintance says "You'll never
know just how brain damaged and broken the 8086 is until you have to
write a large-model compiler for it."  [My paraphrase.]  Sorry DRI,
but you knew the job was dangerous when you took it...