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- From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker)
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
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- Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Experiment ZEUS bei HERA
- References: <1992Dec29.044012.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> <3623363@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:22:23 GMT
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- In article <3623363@zl2tnm.gen.nz>, don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
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- |>zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
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- |>Exactly. Well, you can pull kludgery with magic numbers....
- |>
- |>> Never a truer word spoken... The intertwining of the C language and Unix IO
- |>> is a *HUGE* mistake.
- |>
- |>I personally believe VAXCRTL is a serious impediment to DEC's claims of
- |>"openness" in VMS. Life's too short to have to go re-implementing half
- |>the RTL whenever you try to get anything done because the standard stuff
- |>is too slow, too buggy or more often than not, both.
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- Has anyone any idea what the DECC RTL is like? Has anyone tried it on a VAX? (is
- it avaliable for VAX??) Comparing DECC on Alpha to VAXC is not really on...
- anything running on the alpha tends to look fast.
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- Phill Hallam-Baker
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