Re: Market pressures for more reliable software

["Dale King" <KingD@TCE.com>]

Guys, I think this has strayed way off topic for any of these newsgroups. If
you want to continue it I suggest finding a more suitable place and subject
line. Perhaps comp.misc?

--
 Dale King

"Roedy Green" <roedy@mindprod.com> wrote in message
news:s0nljt02faoreuqrftur6k9qpmjsotv6hc@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:01:02 GMT, robin <robin_v@bigpond.nospam.com>
> wrote or quoted :
>
> >> To load you had to adjust all the
> >> address references to account for where in RAM the program was loaded.
> >
> >No, only those words that had been specified as containing an absolute
> >address.
>
> you only had a 12 bit displacement, so you needed great many ADCONS
> (address constants), to fill your base registers with before you could
> get at anything. On load, all these had to be adjusted to account for
> where the program was actually loaded in RAM.
>
>
>
> For more detail, please look up the key words mentioned in this post in
> the Java Glossary at: http://mindprod.com/gloss.html
>
> --
> Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products
> Custom computer programming since 1963. Ready to take on new work.