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I'm going to assume that once users were told the formatting was due to a really clever C compiler optimization they were probably fine with it.
by jancsika 7y ago
I'm going to assume that once users were told the formatting was due to a really clever C compiler optimization they were probably fine with it.
- smitty1e 7y agoNo, as you read the thread, he had a user FedEx him a tape that reproduced his bug and got it fixed.
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- FpUser 7y agoThe software was written in Forth language and at a time when there was no memory protection.
- dhosek 7y agoYoungsters have no concept of 80s computing where so much was accessible to simple programs.
- RaceWon 7y ago> Youngsters have no concept of 80s In '87 my first 256 computer had 640k of memory with a hd that was less than 1mb IIRC. It cost nearly 5 thousand dollars including the $700 dot matrix printer. Let the good times roll!
- greenyoda 7y agoThe IBM PC/XT, the first IBM PC to be delivered with a hard drive, already had a 10mb hard drive in 1983, so 1mb sounds too small for your hard drive. 1mb was roughly the capacity of a floppy disk.
- dhosek 7y agoMy first PC (in 1991), a no-name luggable with a monochrome plasma display had a 200MB HD. I remember one of my former professors telling me it was nuts to get such a large hard drive, that I'd never fill it up. When I bought its replacement in 1994, the new computer had a 1G hard drive which I split into 200MB partitions with one partition dedicated to a copy of the old computer's hard drive.
- RaceWon 7y ago> had a 10mb hard drive in 1983 Even though it was a Tandy, I appear to be mistaken about the HD capacity.
- FpUser 7y agoThey do not even have enough attention span to read the post enough to realize that what they are talking about has zero relation to the actual topic.
- sgerenser 7y agoThis is clearly a C undefined behavior joke. Not the funniest joke in the world but still made me chuckle