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- Subject: Re: Unix on PDP-11's
- Message-ID: <9209131816.AA38174@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- From: Chris Petrilli <petrilli@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 13:16:05 -0600
- Organization: The Internet
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- CC: INFO-PDP11@transarc.com, John_Wilson@mts.rpi.edu
- In-Reply-To: (Your message of Sun, 13 Sep 92 10:23:52 MST.)
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- >>>>> On Sun, 13 Sep 92 10:23:52 -0700, mcc@wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com (Merton Campbell Crockett) said:
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- Merton> Regardless of operating system or user environment one
- Merton> prefers, a PDP11 is a nice machine to use to learn
- Merton> programming. Not coding that one can learn on any platform
- Merton> but programming where one has to make rationale (or
- Merton> irrationale) decisions about how resources are utilized and
- Merton> learn the techniques needed to write efficient software on any
- Merton> platform that you might later use.
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- I have to agree, as I have seen way too many Computer Science majors
- who thinks it's better if they use MORE memory and MORE system
- resources. That doing so somehow implies that their program is
- somehow `better' than something that someone else did in 1/10th the
- space. I won't get into a diatribe about CASE< but I think that it
- exemplifies the need to teach tight code, and working coded over some
- ``religious'' ideal that bigger is better.
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- Chris
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