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Article #4298HAKMEM
From: p... Per Lindberg
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 1990 20:41
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 1990 20:41
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In article <1990Sep3.0...@cbnewsh.att.com> w...@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) writes: >Does anyone know if HAKMEM is available on-line? ... My copy contains a lot of schematics and graphics and such stuff, so while there might exist a typed-in version somewhere, the original wasn't. You might try MIT, they probably have some paper library/distribution service. >...interesting algorithms written in highly legible PDP-10 assembler. >ARRRGH - as with Knuth, why can't people use ALGOL instead of >preferring low-level languages? Admittedly, some of the algorithms >were really concerned with "how to make a 36-bit machine do >something useful?" Yes and no. Some of the really beautiful hax in HAKMEM are some highly bummed (few instructions, who cares about readability) code pieces in PDP-10 machine code. Love the machine for itself. -- Per Lindberg (The Mad Programmer) ! __!__ Front Capital Systems, Box 5727, ! _____(_)_____ Ceci n'est pas une Piper 11487 Stockholm, Sweden. 8-6611510 ! ! ! !
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!front.se!per From: p...@front.se (Per Lindberg) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: HAKMEM Summary: It's a paper, not a file Keywords: HAKMEM Message-ID: <1553@front.se> Date: 3 Sep 90 20:41:51 GMT References: <1990Aug30.123237.17904@nmt.edu> <1547@front.se> <1990Sep3.053502.18445@cbnewsh.att.com> Organization: Front Capital Systems, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 23 Posted: Mon Sep 3 21:41:51 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit