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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
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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


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