Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thomas Koenig Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: C and turtles, 80286 protected mode Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:49:59 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: <2024Oct6.150415@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Injection-Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 21:49:59 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e0a76a5ed36cc06a6feb57ee4a0695ed"; logging-data="3038226"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/iDO1DObtlaXVYv75IHYRWSHKXPeWZYCA=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GL72PsHNH01rDawZ845mvSRLPsE= Bytes: 1290 On 2024-10-16, John Levine wrote: > It was in the library on the PDP-11/45 I used in 1976, too, but > the C library was whatever was in the C library, a mix of Unix > system calls and other stuff. The first C standard wasn't > published until 1985. Wasn't it 1989?