From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Subject: [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 19:11:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1467328260.3640485.653662833.5AEA31EC@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfiPzy+J=AWbhjrdxNBCLg=g0eMbeONwFDUeVTpd8uHjnsPZA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016, at 16:57, Nemo wrote:
> I heard that a lot of the BIOS was a simple-minded translation of
> corresponding 8080-assembler. I believe that; if you look at the
> horrible assembler, which was actually printed in the IBM Technical
> Manual, you could see that most 8086 extensions were not used.
Well, a new system means there are no expert programmers for it, who
have learned all the tricks and how it all fits together. You see
something similar in environments like console video games, with a
progression of higher-performance games within each console generation
as programmers learn to wring more out of the same hardware.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-30 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 15:17 scj
2016-06-30 5:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-06-30 5:08 ` John Cowan
2016-06-30 11:18 ` arnold
2016-06-30 11:45 ` arnold
2016-06-30 13:22 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-30 14:05 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-06-30 14:33 ` William Cheswick
2016-06-30 14:43 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-30 14:57 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-30 15:07 ` Ori Idan
2016-06-30 23:07 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-01 3:27 ` Jesus Cea
2016-06-30 15:32 ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 15:49 ` Larry McVoy
2016-06-30 16:32 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-04 5:08 ` [TUHS] OS for IBM PC (was: Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-06-30 17:07 ` [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs John Cowan
2016-06-30 17:57 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-06-30 18:31 ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 19:21 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-30 19:51 ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 19:55 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-30 20:04 ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 18:26 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-30 19:21 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-06-30 19:43 ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 19:53 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-30 19:47 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-30 20:57 ` Nemo
2016-06-30 23:11 ` Random832 [this message]
2016-06-30 23:16 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-06-30 23:38 ` Random832
2016-07-01 0:38 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-01 1:21 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-07-01 1:34 ` John Cowan
2016-07-04 19:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-04 19:56 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-01 2:35 ` Nemo
2016-07-01 3:01 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-07-01 3:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-07-01 12:47 ` [TUHS] MS-DOS William Cheswick
2016-07-01 13:43 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-07-01 21:58 ` John Cowan
2016-07-01 22:27 ` Jacob Ritorto
2016-07-01 22:54 ` Jacob Goense
2016-07-01 23:44 ` John Cowan
2016-07-02 0:08 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-02 1:09 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-07-02 2:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-02 3:27 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-02 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-01 23:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-02 1:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-02 4:37 ` SZIGETI Szabolcs
2016-07-02 9:53 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-01 13:47 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-01 15:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-02 15:25 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-02 15:32 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-02 19:46 ` Nemo
2016-07-03 1:18 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-03 13:33 ` Nemo
2016-07-01 17:39 ` John Cowan
2016-07-02 15:17 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-03 22:07 ` Derek Fawcus
2016-07-02 23:32 ` [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs Peter Jeremy
2016-06-30 15:52 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-30 20:47 ` Lawrence Stewart
[not found] <mailman.19.1467287486.30583.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-06-30 13:15 ` David
2016-06-30 13:18 ` William Cheswick
2016-06-30 13:39 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-30 13:44 Noel Chiappa
2016-06-30 14:28 ` William Cheswick
2016-06-30 19:23 ` John Cowan
2016-06-30 17:17 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2016-07-01 9:32 ` Brantley Coile
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