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- From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
- Subject: Re: Why should POINTERS be so damn hard to understand ?
- Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 20:50:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.205000.14732@mccc.edu>
- References: <1992Aug26.124652.9509@alw.nih.gov> <1992Sep03.154038.27377@syscon.rn.com> <14367@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
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- In article <14367@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
- =How often do I have to say it? "move (r0)+,(r1)+" is a PDP-11 instruction.
- =The PDP-11 was _NOT_ the first machine C ran on, nor the machine C was
- =designed for.
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- Ritchie, Johnson, Lesk and Kernighan say otherwise in BSTJ, July/August,
- 1978: "C was originally written for the PDP-11 under UNIX..."
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