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From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Mario Bothers
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Date: 17 Jul 90 13:18:36 GMT
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In article <64280@sgi.sgi.com> bron@bronze.wpd.sgi.com (Bron Campbell Nelson) writes:
>And you'd be dead wrong.  Video game software is some of the ugliest
>and most arcane assembler there is.

(I won't include my quote since it's embarassingly unfounded.)

Really?  Is that changing?  I am seeing more and more of the popular
games very accurately duplicated on radically different hardware (at
least I assume that these game systems use different hardware).  Do
they rewrite it completely?

Sorry for the off topic discussion, my e-mail isn't very dependable.

Paul Chamberlain | I do NOT represent IBM         tif@doorstop, sc30661@ausvm6
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