Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring)

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From: Freek Wiedijk
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 20:46

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In article <C:t?h_2@cs.psu.edu> melling@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>How much work would it be for software companies to support a RISC version
>of their NeXT software?  I would think that most of their software is written
>in C, or another high level language, and would need nothing more than
>a recompile.  How much assembly level optimization is done in most commmercial
>software?

As far as I know WriteNow, the default word processor on the NeXT, is
completely coded in assembly.  There's glory for you!

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From: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
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Subject: Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring)
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