From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,c9f2b97a84c48976 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-28 09:14:57 PST From: "Dale King" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml,comp.lang.java.advocacy References: <2_x_6.6808$e5.26279@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> Subject: Re: Market pressures for more reliable software Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:12:45 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 NNTP-Posting-Host: weis3.indy.tce.com Message-ID: <3b3b57ad@news.tce.com> X-Trace: 28 Jun 2001 11:13:33 -0600, weis3.indy.tce.com Organization: Thomson Consumer Electronics Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!pullfeed!news.tce.com!weis3.indy.tce.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9209 comp.lang.java.programmer:79401 comp.lang.pl1:1157 comp.lang.vrml:3935 comp.lang.java.advocacy:22159 Date: 2001-06-28T11:12:45-05:00 List-Id: 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" wrote in message news:s0nljt02faoreuqrftur6k9qpmjsotv6hc@4ax.com... > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:01:02 GMT, robin > 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.