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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Re: Optimization technique wanted...
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 10:10:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 10:10:30 1984
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> The assembler gave no help whatsoever, so you wrote your program, and then
> produced an assembly listing with its 100 or so displacement errors and
> whittled them down by hand.  I wrote 2 compilers for that machine.  My
> eventual approach was to do almost everything by indirects with the compiler
> breaking code to jump around a block of indirect words every so often.

And all this time I thought the Nova was developed in the U.S.
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    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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