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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Don't fill your HD (was: format is brain dead)
Message-ID: <36457@cup.portal.com>
Date: 2 Dec 90 08:48:48 GMT
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jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) in <1990Dec1.194656.8074@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
writes:

	Hey Thad, you shuould try HandShake when there is not enough
	memory for it to run. It does not behave well.

'Tis possible.  I'm not about to test that failure-mode on my system, not
after having endured "only" 512K RAM back in 1985 and since I don't have
an MMU on my Amigas for memory/process protection.

For that matter, even the mg2a I use has some serious flaws, the most
obnoxious being an apparent use of 16-bit ints for defining the boundaries
of a region.  Just read in, say, a 100K file, and attempt to delete more
than 64K from the text buffer after having set the "mark" and using ^W.
Yet it's also able to handle 1MB+ files just fine in other instances.  I
haven't bothered to look into the problem since Mike has a new beta version
out and since I have the "real" Stallman EMACS running on my DEC-20, VAX,
and UNIX systems.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]