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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:15:12 +0100
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions
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>  Ken Thompson seemed to be absent at most Usenix conferences, but at
>  one I saw him line up at the mike after the talk on the BSD
>  packet filter.  He asked why they had used a stack machine.  The
>  poor fellow, who recognized who was asking the question looked
>  like a deer suddenly lit by the headlights of a Peterbuilt.
>
>   `It's faster?'
>
>   `No, it's not!'
>
>  End of questions.

I would pay good money for a video of this exchange...

uriel