From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Safety of the Booch Ada 95 Components
Date: 1999/12/13
Date: 1999-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8332ap$8oe$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Yk354.42$tb.10677@news.wenet.net
In article <Yk354.42$tb.10677@news.wenet.net>,
xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) wrote:
> AmigaBASIC, whose developers assumed that the 24 bits in use of 32 bit
> pointers they saw when the machine in an early OS rev would be the law
> forever, ignored the developer manuals warnings to the contrary, used
> the other 8 bits for string lengths or some such, in a petty search
Yikes, why did you have to remind me of that? I had a pretty neat
basketball game on my 1000, but on the 2000 the ball turned into a
square brown blotch. I could still play it, but my wife called it
"basketbrick". :-)
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-10 0:00 Safety of the Booch Ada 95 Components Harry Erwin
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Harry Erwin
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Harry Erwin
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Harry Erwin
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Kent Paul Dolan
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Harry Erwin
1999-12-15 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Harry Erwin
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Harry Erwin
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Harry Erwin
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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