Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: JRComm, VLT, Handshake
Message-ID: <15328@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 22 Oct 90 22:14:07 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.235942.2141@caen.engin.umich.edu> <9811@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
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In article <9811@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> olson@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Toad) writes:
>JR-Comm 1.0 had a problem with certain 2091 controllers, the ones that hose
>location zero with a non-zero value, this has been fixed in 1.01. 

	A note for all programmers out there: there is NO guarantee that
location 0 will be 0.  References to location 0 are bugs, and enforcer will
trap and report them.  Memmung stuffs a nasty value into location 0 to try
to break incorrect programs.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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