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- From: abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell)
- Subject: Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.003549.8887@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov06.152200.170781@lexmark.com> <1992Nov6.205045.26293@netcom.com> <1992Nov07.210606.196252@lexmark.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:35:49 GMT
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- songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes:
- > I don't see where the "underlying model" is going to affect the user or the
- > Nextstep developer. (assuming that they don't write assembly -- a pretty good
- > assumption on Nextstep.)
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- Actually, I do write assembler fairly often. Even when I'm writing C, I'm
- thinking about what the compiler is going to do with my code. This is a
- reasonable effort on a reasonable machine, but not on any kind of 8086,
- regardless of how fast it goes. A computer is a tool used by a mind, not
- a substitute for a mind. CPUs need to be designed for this kind of interaction.
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- Steve abell@netcom.com
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