[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

Bob Eager rde42 at spamcop.net
Sun Oct 4 09:53:12 EDT 2009


On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:36:36 +0000, VAXman- wrote:

>>Just took a look - c1 was 15K, c1 was 21K, and c2 was 8K (approx).
>>That's just code and static data. c1 would need a lot of dynamically
>>allocated storage for symbol tables, parse trees, etc.
> 
> If you haven't taken notice, C isn't being used these days for PDP-11
> programming.

Never said it was! I was looking at the 1976 version of UNIX, which I 
have here. Just explaining the main reason the preprocessor was separate.



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