Clearly history is wrong. It would never be able to compile C in less than 18MB (1/2 of clang’s text size). Therefor Unix didn’t really happen. It’s all been a phone company conspiracy for world domination, like the NASA not really putting a man on the moon. We were just *told* they had built a system in 1973 using a simple two pass compiler that would fit into about 28KW of memory. AT&T would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for their great mistake—the 3B20. Results: no more “One system; it works."
> On Nov 26, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Charles Forsyth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 26 November 2015 at 23:08, Ryan Gonzalez <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Holy crap, that's crazy. I built it in debug mode on Linux, but I don't think > it used that much. I only have 6 GB right now! > > You have to remember that a C compiler is one of the largest, most complex > software components that human beings have ever had to produce. > The original C reference manual made it look deceptively easy, but really > there's a ton of stuff going on in there, as you can see. > How they ever got it going on a system with 64Kbytes of address space, I'll > never know.
