[TUHS] speaking of early C compilers

[Dave Horsfall]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Clem Cole wrote:

> [...] because the CMU 11/40E had special CSV/CRET microcode which we 
> could not use on the 11/34.

The 40E had microcode whilst the vanilla 40 didn't?  I thought only the 60 
was micro-programmable; I never did get around to implementing CSV/CRET on 
our 60 (Digital had a bunch of them when a contract with a publishing 
house fell through).

> The other things for those days, that has not yet been brought up was 
> the famous "NUXI" problem.   The  PDP-11 byte swapping was idemic in the 
> code.   When the first ports to system that were not the same 
> "endianess" came about - you would find strange things in memory.

Reminds me of the time when I used 2-char constants in case statements; my 
boss yelled at me.

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