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		Merrill on Feb 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C was not created as an abstract machine C was a small enough language to allow compilation on a mid-1970s 16-bit minicomputer with limited memory and a small removable disk pack for storage. PL/I compilers ran on mainframes.

pjmlp on Feb 3, 2023 [–]

Yeah, PDP-11 was worse than computers that came a decade before it. /s

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