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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Date: Tue,  7 Mar 2006 18:06:32 -0600
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what compiler were you using with packed structures in 1976?

- erik

Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> writes

| Packed has been around in compilers for realtime and embedded for 30
| years -- dare I admit to using it at some time? Nah. You were none of
| you born then anyway, so you can't prove a thing. That code is on a
| magtape in a landfill somewhere in Pennsylvania.
|
| ron