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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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To: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] structure allocation.
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erik quanstrom wrote:
> what compiler were you using with packed structures in 1976?
>
> - erik
>

It was 1978. It was called Microl, and was developed by someone I know
at HP.

We used it to write code for Z80s. It also had bit fields that were NOT
a botch and a type-safe linker. In fact, it had some features that I was
not to see in the C world until several decades later.

ron