On Sunday, 16 July 2023 at 02:54:29 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>Yeah quite an impressive life cycle!
Though, even GCC started out as an 8020 (and vax) code generator.
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Posted in reply to Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole | On Sunday, 16 July 2023 at 02:54:29 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: >Yeah quite an impressive life cycle! Though, even GCC started out as an 8020 (and vax) code generator. |
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Posted in reply to Iain Buclaw | On 7/16/2023 12:41 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Though, even GCC [started out](https://groups.google.com/g/mod.compilers/c/ynAVuwR7dPw) as an 8020 (and vax) code generator.
I didn't know that! Cool
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Posted in reply to Iain Buclaw | The advantage it has was being designed for the very irregular, inconsistent use of registers. |