Explanation, please!

[Lawrence V. Cipriani]

In article <1002 at cbnews.ATT.COM>, lvc at cbnews.ATT.COM (that's me) wrote:
> Sometimes the standard subroutines are implemented horribly.  I was
> horrified when I saw that the machine dependent version of memcpy
> on the AT&T 3Bs is nothing but a byte by byte transfer written in
> assembly language. ...

Oops.  I should have said this was on an early version (~1984) of
a 3B5.  New 3Bs don't have this deficiency.

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Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH, cbnews!lvc lvc at cbnews.ATT.COM