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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Bugs or Mistakes?
Date: 1999/11/14
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In article <80kklc$p4n$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net>,
  Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Long after the problem was fixed, the Colonel could be heard
> showing off his computer expertise by telling people about the
> 49th bit.


Well, straying further from the topic, which is a bit silly
anyway :-)

I read a review of a new computer game in a UK games magazine
that gushed:

XYZ is the first video game to really use the full 16-bits of
power of the new ABC video game system. Previous games for this
system have only used part of its power, perhaps 10 or 11 bits.

:-)



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