PASCAL as a system's programming language

[Henry Spencer]

> ...  Unfortunately, 'C' can be adapted only with great difficulties
> to other architectures, like the Cyber 173, the DEC-20, &c. (not to be
> misunderstood, 'C' compilers for these machines exists, it is just that
> practically no program that Joe Random Hacker produces on a VAX will
> run on them unaltered).

Actually, practically no program that Joe Random Hacker produces on a
VAX will run on a PDP11 unaltered...
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry