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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
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Subject: Crock involving FIRQBs
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Date: 13 Feb 91 22:04:36 GMT
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   X-Name: Larry Wall

   Yep.  Did you ever try writing a run-time system with no documentation?
   That was fun.  Disassembling the operating system helped, a little.

We didn't start playing with that sort of thing until we got a copy of
a set of bootleg notes that were circulating.  They were the only
known external documentation of the kernel calls at the time.  A
friend of mine did try to disassemble the RT-11 RTS, though.  Ugh.

   "Who stomped on my FIRQB?!!??!!"

Probably "parse CCL"!

Dale

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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