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From: ches@cheswick.com (William Cheswick)
Subject: [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs / Pascal
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 19:43:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1B3F2199-2A6D-4F23-87D9-9DC973945E9D@cheswick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C59B0097-EA50-42F7-B535-97F2FF6A11DE@kdbarto.org>

Shades of the BLIT loading.

> On 30Jun 2016, at 7:00 PM, David <david at kdbarto.org> wrote:
> 
> compiling. When the Terak system was in use at UCSD the video memory would display on the screen so you could watch the heap grow down the screen while the stack crawled up when compiling. If it ever hit in the middle, you had a crash. Exciting times.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-30 23:43 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <mailman.25.1467300770.30583.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-06-30 23:00 ` David
2016-06-30 23:43   ` William Cheswick [this message]
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2016-06-30 22:55 ` David

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