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From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Subject: [TUHS] B Source Code
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 05:06:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wr2v998do.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170914044925.GG24549@mcvoy.com> (Larry McVoy's message of "Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:49:25 -0700")

Larry McVoy wrote:
> Doug McIlroy wrote:
>> B presaged some C syntax. But its shining property was that it
>> produced threaded code, for which both compact and expanded runtime
>> support was available.
> 
> Threaded?  I'm guessing you mean that it did paging, did that need
> threads in the current sense?

Read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-14  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-14  3:48 Doug McIlroy
2017-09-14  4:49 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-14  5:06   ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2017-09-14 12:53     ` Ronald Natalie
2017-09-14  5:33   ` Alec Muffett
2017-09-14  5:44     ` Warner Losh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-09-15 15:21 Noel Chiappa
2017-09-14 13:39 Noel Chiappa
2017-09-14 14:24 ` Dan Cross
2017-09-14 19:46   ` Derek Fawcus
2017-09-15  3:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-15 11:43   ` William Pechter
2017-09-19  1:20     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-15 12:44   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-15 13:03     ` Clem Cole
2017-09-12 18:03 Robert Swierczek
2017-09-12 18:14 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-12 19:24   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-12 19:43     ` Steve Johnson
2017-09-18 21:45     ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-09-19 17:01       ` Thorsten Sideboard
2017-09-12 19:36   ` Charles Anthony
2017-09-12 20:39   ` Robert Swierczek

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