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| From | Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers, openwatcom.users.c_cpp, comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++ |
| Date | 2025-11-02 12:57 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10e8d3v$2bc04$3@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (9 earlier) <hob9tl$dq7$1@naig.caltech.edu> <1e27d5ee-a1b1-45d9-9188-63ab37398e9f@d37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <MPG.26137db0f4722b3d9896da@news.eternal-september.org> <87k4t1thk5.fsf@kilospaz.fatphil.org> <f51c9aec-550b-4720-97e0-8fa743524f59@b30g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> |
Cross-posted to 4 groups.
On 3/25/10 03:02, Nick Keighley wrote: > On 24 Mar, 23:40, Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demun...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: >> Dann Corbit <dcor...@connx.com> writes: >>> In article <1e27d5ee-a1b1-45d9-9188- >>> 63ab37398...@d37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, >>> nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com says... >> >>>> On 23 Mar, 20:56, glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: >>>>> In alt.sys.pdp10 Richard Bos <ralt...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >>>>> (snip) >> >>>>>> That crossposting was, for once, not asinine. It served as a nice >>>>>> example why, even now, Leenux weenies are not correct when they insist >>>>>> that C has a flat memory model and all pointers are just numbers. >> >>>>> Well, you could also read the C standard to learn that. >> >>>> but if you say that you get accused of language lawyering. >>>> "Since IBM stopped making 360s no C program ever needs to run on such >>>> a platform" >> >>> We have customers who are running their business on harware from the mid >>> 1980s. It may sound ludicrous, but it if solves all of their business >>> needs, and runs solid 24x365, why should they upgrade? >> >> Because they could run an equivalently computationally powerful >> solution with various levels of redundancy and fail-over protection, >> with a power budget sensibly measured in mere Watts? > > does it have a Coral compiler? There's a market for someone.
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Re: 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++ Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-11-02 12:57 -0700
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