a style question

[Michael Meissner]

In article <EYC66N8 at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

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| From: peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
| Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
| Date: 12 Oct 90 03:11:50 GMT
| References: <1990Oct6.231143.28186 at zoo.toronto.edu> <65263 at lanl.gov>
| Reply-To: peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
| Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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| In article <65263 at lanl.gov> jlg at lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
| > In the _very_ early days of C, it may have compared well to the PDP-8
| > assembler - mostly because it way practically an upward compatible
| > extension of that assembler.
| 
| Talking of contrary to observed fact: the PDP-8 had no part in the
| development of the C programming language. Perhaps you're thinking
| of the PDP-11.

Or if you know your UNIX pre-history, the PDP-7.
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