Re: Function-prototype scope: Why?

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From: halasz
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 21:27

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In article <MEISSNER.95Sep22121125@tiktok.cygnus.com>, meissner@cygnus.com (Michael Meissner) writes
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> Take it from me, implementing strict C on a word based machine is simple --
Even a PDP-10 under TOPS-10/20 (I meant PDP-10 when I wrote PDP-11) where
the 7-bit byte, 5 to a word, is customarie?  I suspect that on that, too,
the implementors would uze a new or unuzual file-protocol for textfiles.
> what is difficult is getting lots of net code to run on such a machine.
> Users are not typically interested in 'strict' C.
Contributed software or network-handler software?

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Subject: Re: Function-prototype scope: Why?
Date: 22 Sep 1995 17:27:09 -0400
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