[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 10:16 PM, Chris Byrne wrote:
>>    The impression I get is that, in general, it's great for CISC
>> processors and crappy for anything RISC or post-RISC.  I know for a
>> fact that it's very good for VAX and m68k (two extremely CISC
>> processors) and x86 (definitely CISC).
>
> Which is unsurprising because IIRC it was originally developed on the
> PDP, it's first major microcomputer port was to the m68k, and the vast
> majority of its development and optimization for the past ten years has
> been on x86.

   GCC was *not* originally developed on the PDP.  I don't know where 
you heard that.  Or even which PDP you're referring to for that matter.

        -Dave

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