[TUHS] Early Unix function calls: expensive?
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Mon Jan 4 10:01:13 AEST 2016
Tim Bradshaw scripsit:
> The VAX architecture and its performance horrors must have killed DEC,
> I guess.
Like most things, it was overdetermined: the Rainbow and the lack of
insight it represented was another major cause.
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