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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Safety of the Booch Ada 95 Components
Date: 1999/12/13
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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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