'C' compiler minimal subset

johnl at ima.UUCP johnl at ima.UUCP
Sun Jul 7 14:31:00 AEST 1985


> /* Written  1:33 pm  Jul  4, 1985 by cdl at mplvax in ima:net.lang.c */
> In article <1259 at uwmacc.UUCP> oyster at uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) writes:
> >   I have been toying with the idea of writing as much of a C compiler
> >as will fit in my 64K machine
> If Dennis Ritchie could write one, probably you could too.  Remember the
> PDP-11.  :-)

Hey, wait a minute -- it wasn't a 64K machine, it was a 56K machine, and
24K of that was taken up by the operating system.  (Take that, megabyte
kernel hackers.)

John Levine, ima!johnl



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