From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Origin year of BSD csh?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:45:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160627214524.GJ3353@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E69B1487-94B8-49C6-BA11-0F9FEEABE623@ronnatalie.com>
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Ronald Natalie scripsit:
> Hard to believe the 8086 chip was “optimized” for anything.
> The instruction set was designed for programming terminals.
Well, yes. But the four separate address spaces work fine for Pascal,
where it is always statically known whether a pointer is to code,
global data, the stack (internal only), or the heap. For C they were
nothing but a nuisance: C can handle separate I & D space, but that's all.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
What asininity could I have uttered that they applaud me thus?
--Phocion, Greek orator
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-27 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-26 10:14 Aharon Robbins
2016-06-26 16:30 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-06-26 18:14 ` Larry McVoy
2016-06-26 18:32 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-26 20:43 ` John Cowan
2016-06-27 0:59 ` Larry McVoy
2016-06-27 1:11 ` John Cowan
2016-06-27 11:27 ` Sven Mascheck
2016-06-27 12:47 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-27 14:58 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-27 15:29 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-27 16:22 ` John Cowan
2016-06-27 16:35 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-27 20:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-06-27 20:33 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-27 20:44 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-27 21:02 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-27 21:15 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-27 21:20 ` John Cowan
2016-06-27 21:28 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-27 21:45 ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-06-28 6:49 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-06-28 7:51 ` arnold
2016-06-27 21:29 ` Random832
2016-06-28 14:47 ` Tony Finch
2016-06-26 19:41 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-27 10:31 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-27 13:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-27 13:15 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-06-27 15:17 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-27 13:39 ` [TUHS] Bizarre job control, was csh Warren Toomey
2016-06-27 15:00 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-27 15:13 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-27 15:23 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-26 20:58 ` [TUHS] Origin year of BSD csh? Steve Nickolas
2016-06-27 10:03 ` Joerg Schilling
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