mo@seismo.UUCP (Mike O'Dell) (08/31/84)
Let me correct an impression which may have been left by my previous note on linker problems. Microsoft is not to blame for our problems; they are implementing Intel standard designs in a concientious way, which is probably correct from many viewpoints. However, it isn't adquate for what I need to do. The fact is that the Intel memory layout models are rather at odds with the way Unix programs work. (That is, text, data, bss, and stack, all only limited by the available memory on the machine.) I tried to give up tinkering with explicit memory layout when I graduated from assembler! That, coupled with the incomplete support of the Large addressing model by a compiler which claims to support it is the base of my troubles. I did not wish to impune Microsoft, but I do wish someone creating such standards would realize there is an upper half to the ASCII table, and that ASR33's are largely museum pieces. -Mike O'Dell