Thus spake William Chops Westfield (billw@CISCO.COM):

> It was definately the 90's before we started using (in a multi-megabyte C
> embedded system) Ansi style function definitions (void foo (int a, char *b))

I assume you're speaking from the perspective of Cisco, and I would
imagine you had (have?) a large code investment written in K&R C, but
embedded ANSI C compilers were both in demand and in use by 1987.

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