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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: OOD applied to interpreters and compilers
Summary: Oh, yeah?
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Date: 19 Oct 89 17:49:00 GMT
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In article <31004@news.Think.COM> barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin) writes:
|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.

At least on my first machine the stones I moved from pile to pile were
mostly(*) harmless.

	/JBL

(*) There was the time a scorpion was nesting in one pile.
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