From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:35:27 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs In-Reply-To: References: <0f57f9d8248db61cba34372814d2f45e.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> <2c674075-db86-827b-fd97-30921757e9ae@aueb.gr> Message-ID: On 30 June 2016 at 20:38, Clem Cole wrote (in part): > Marc, > [...] > Seriously, Marc I get it and you are better man for dealing with the > craziness of the day. Many of the rest of us would not at the time, and > until we got "real HW" did not mess that much with it. Anyone remember Desqview/X? A strange beast, running some window manager on X on a PC. They made available a variant of gcc and you could actually compile some X stuff. I say "some" because I tried compiling something by running xmkmf+make and went back to laying subfloor in an adjacent room. A few minutes later, I heard the PC rebooting. The underlying file system was still DOS and thus 8.3 names. The source included headers that differed in the 9th place and the stack eventually blew. N.