On Sep 27, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:
So what?! Look at most programs today that are written in C, and it's
patently clear that it is much, much closer to the PDP-11 instruction
set than any Intel architecture has ever provided. So, why are we all
using C-compiled applications on x86 boxen? Oh, and PowerPCs and
other RISC processors are even *more* fundamentally different from the
original PDP-11 instruction set still.
Well...not all of us are using x86 boxen. 8-P [dave dives for cover]
-Dave
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