[Info-vax] x86 Update 4/22/19

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/26/19 10:19 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 
>>> My understanding is that it does both co-routines (modifies saved return addresses
>>> on the VAX stack) and JSBs that return condition codes.  Both of these are not
>>> supported by the Macro compiler.
> ...
>> Docha just hate "too smart" programmers?
> 
> oh, the stories I could tell from my last job...dealing with about 150,000+ lines of
> ancient VAX Macro, with loads of "too smart" programmers using every trick in the
> book over the years, including a co-routine instance...
> 

There was a time when programmers actually gave consideration
to size and efficiency and bloat was not the desired result.
Resources were not what most today are used to.  I was once
asked to program an LSI-11 because my co-workers all said it
was impossible to do anything useful with only 28KWords of
memory.

bill