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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:26:20 +0100
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On 2019-02-27 07:20, russ lyttle wrote:

> That is all true. You could make the case that C turns your computer 
> into a PDP-11. I was being generous.

Huh, you could not write

    MOV -(PC),-(PC)

in C, if I correctly remember the famous PDP-11 one-liner.

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