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Yup. He also wrote a compiler book in the 80s. He once gave me a mini-lecture on old architectures from the 70s and how 'we kids had it easy these days'. It was
by sriramk 16y ago
Yup. He also wrote a compiler book in the 80s. He once gave me a mini-lecture on old architectures from the 70s and how 'we kids had it easy these days'. It was awesome, even if I didn't catch any of the content until he started talking about x86 :)
- wglb 16y agoCool. Do you recall the title of the book? I am unable to find any reference to it.
- ks 16y agoPerhaps this? http://www.amazon.com/dp/0932376193 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0932376193
- wglb 16y agoThanks much. That turns out to be one of the better engineered compilers, at least according to David Conroy (author of MicroEmacs, author of the first handful of compilers for Mark Williams, hardware engineer for DecTalk and who should be on this list).