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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.pascal,net.lang.c
Subject: Re: PASCAL as a system's programming language
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 11:21:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  8 11:21:50 1985
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> ...  Unfortunately, 'C' can be adapted only with great difficulties
> to other architectures, like the Cyber 173, the DEC-20, &c. (not to be
> misunderstood, 'C' compilers for these machines exists, it is just that
> practically no program that Joe Random Hacker produces on a VAX will
> run on them unaltered).

Actually, practically no program that Joe Random Hacker produces on a
VAX will run on a PDP11 unaltered...
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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