[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/4/2018 2:33 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> I suspect that he has once read something on the internet and are just
> referencing it.
> 
> http://www.softpanorama.org/Lang/pl1.shtml#IBM_wiped_the_floor_with_completion 
> 
> does claim that the IBM PL/I compiler in 1966 had 100 passes
> to be able to run using only 44 KB of memory.

Also impressive - it talks about making a PL/I subset compiler
work in 16 KB in 1967.

Arne