[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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