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From: steve@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu (Steve D. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: unaligned data access on DS3100's
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Date: 21 Mar 90 19:43:56 GMT
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I disagree.  On any other machine, programs that do things that should make
them core dump actually do core dump.  This is the hardware's way of telling
you to clean up your code. (-:  The thing that worries me a lot is that some
vendors might ship software that does the equivalent of 'uac p 0' before it
starts to run.  I'd much rather that they spent their time fixing their
problems.

Oh well, I guess this is a religious issue.

	-Steve


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