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I’m under the impression that the speed and memory of their PDP-11 were barely enough to run their C compiler, considering that Emacs was considered a heavyweight app and S-Algol had to target a virtual machine instead of native code.



virtual machines are native code. if you google pdp-11 C you'll get all sorts of interesting articles from 40ish years ago.




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