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From: barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: OOD applied to interpreters and compilers
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Date: 19 Oct 89 17:08:50 GMT
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In article <15367@vlsisj.VLSI.COM> davidc@vlsisj.UUCP (David Chapman) writes:
>In article <8721@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>You had an operating system?  Oh how I wished I could have one when I was
>younger...
>And just be glad you had core instead of mercury delay lines!

At least you HAD computer memory!  When I was a lad, the computer would ask
ME for the value of every word.  It did it in binary with a knife, slashing
my left side for a 0 and my right side for a 1 in the address.  I- and
D-space were indicated by poking one of my eyes out.
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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