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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: OOD applied to interpreters and compilers
Message-ID: <10997@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 21 Oct 89 00:23:22 GMT
References: <5226@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <8721@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <15367@vlsisj.VLSI.COM> <31004@news.Think.COM>
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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.

You had BINARY? Well that shore beats all get out. Back when I was a youngster
we had a unary system, it were almost plum useless. If you wanted to add 2+2
you needed 4 separate machines and you got your answer by counting the number
of machines present.