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From: herndon
Date: Thu, 15 May 1986 21:18
Date: Thu, 15 May 1986 21:18
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I believe the military did some research to find architectures which optimized programmer performance for assembly languages. I don't know of any references, but someone from Johns Hopkins applied physics lab once made the claim that the PDP-11 and the ANYUK-20 (?sp) were far and away the best machines for helping programmers produce working code quickly. Interpreters for machines are also quite old; back before any machines had floating point hardware, it was not an uncommon practice to program in pseudo-ops which were then interpreted. These pseudo-ops often looked much like P-codes. This is mentioned in some of the introductory textbooks on computer languages. Anybody else hear about anything like either of these? Robert Herndon ...!ihnp4!umn-cs!herndon
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