Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted

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From: Phill Hallam-Baker
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 22:22

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In article <3623363@zl2tnm.gen.nz>, don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:

|>zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:

|>Exactly.  Well, you can pull kludgery with magic numbers....
|>
|>> Never a truer word spoken... The intertwining of the C language and Unix IO
|>> is a *HUGE* mistake.
|>
|>I personally believe VAXCRTL is a serious impediment to DEC's claims of 
|>"openness" in VMS.  Life's too short to have to go re-implementing half
|>the RTL whenever you try to get anything done because the standard stuff
|>is too slow, too buggy or more often than not, both.

Has anyone any idea what the DECC RTL is like? Has anyone tried it on a VAX? (is
it avaliable for VAX??) Comparing DECC on Alpha to VAXC is not really on...
anything running on the alpha tends to look fast.

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Phill Hallam-Baker

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