Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!seanf From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonport Message-ID: <1305@scolex> Date: 20 Sep 88 18:29:17 GMT References: <5162@hoptoad.uucp> <225800069@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <8507@smoke.ARPA> <3981@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1988Sep17.212624.8858@utzoo.uucp> <10295 Reply-To: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 26 In article <10295@bellcore.bellcore.com> sjs@ctt.bellcore.com (Stan Switzer) writes: >Two is a couple. A few is at least three (in my book). I guess >*many* will have to be at least four. Let's put this question to the >test. >I can think of one, so I'll start: > 1) GECOS / GCOS / GCOS 8 2) CDC Cybers, 170 series. (I have to hedge a bit here, we can use *7* character identifiers, but, since it also uses, I believe, an underscore, that takes up one of the characters.) It is, however, monocase. And, surprising though it may be to those who know the machine (and those who don't should 8-)), there exist at least *two* C Compilers for the macine: UofTexas (or is it Austin, I forget) ported PCC to NOS (ugh!), and I and a couple of friends (Hi mike!) ported Small-C (almost as much ugh!). The Compilers work, but there is not much we can do about the linker (part of the operating system, you see; generally, you build a ".o" equivilent, then, when you try to run it, the OS recognizes that it is non-linked and then proceeds to link it). >Stan Switzer sjs@ctt.bellcore.com -- Sean Eric Fagan | "Never underestimate the bandwith of a pickup full of seanf@sco.UUCP | 9-track tapes!" - Eric Green (elg@killer) (408) 458-1422 | Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers'.