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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!utcsri!torn!maccs!mcshub!csx.cciw.ca!u009 From: u009@csx.cciw.ca (G. Stewart Beal) Subject: Re: Memory problem Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:17:27 GMT Message-ID: <1992Oct16.191727.14870@csx.cciw.ca> Keywords: memory References: <wmbfmk.719081295@rwb.urc.tue.nl> <1bmcvjINN5m3@corax.udac.uu.se> <veit.719246200@du9ds3> Lines: 27 In article <veit.719246200@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes: >In <1bmcvjINN5m3@corax.udac.uu.se> goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) writes: > >Of course it is a feature! This demonstrates you drastically that you need >more RAM and more disk (swap-) space. >... > I remember times when a Fortran 77 or >an AZTEC C ran in 51K TPA area (guess when and which OS...) >:-)))) > >Holger > In the same vein (bleading edge of technology!), remember Leor's 11 pass C compiler (BDS C)? Needed 31K. And was the fastest compiler I'd ever seen. The guy admitted he knew nothing about compiler design, so he wrote it the way he thought it should work. Trivia time: what does BDS stand for in the name of Leor Zolman's company? (this should be in the playoffs of the Computer Bowl!) Regards, Stu Beal, VE3MWM, U009@CS.CCIW.CA, National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Ontario, Canada. "She was a definite '10': a '5' with a high paying job." - Cole B. Kiser