[13665] in Athena Bugs

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Re: sun4 7.7R: machtype

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Jul 15 11:29:00 1995

Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 11:28:57 -0400
To: Albert Dvornik <bert@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[13661] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>


[Ignoring the first part of your bug report because it's known :-) ]

> Please list any other disparaging remarks about the source code, which
> we'll probably ignore because you are spewing anyway:
>  
> 	  I realize that Real Programmers never, ever write those
> 	  time-wasting "if" statements when the answer can be
> 	  conveniently hard-coded into the binary, but this pushing it:
>  
> 		  do_dpy(kernel, mf)
> 		  char *kernel;
> 		  int mf;
> 		  {
> 		     puts(verbose? "cgthree frame buffer" : "cgthree");
> 		      return;
> 		  }

Gee, neat! May I point out that the Sparc 5's we DON'T EVEN HAVE cgthree's?
They have cgsix's, as reported by both L1-A/show-sbus/go and sysinfo!

--jhawk

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