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From: rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Standard for long hex numbers? (Was: Re: Amiga and its memory map)
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Date: 14 Feb 91 14:21:42 GMT
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In article <887@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
| In article <18881@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

| >Cheap-ass A3000 memory map:
| >$ff010000-$ffffffff	Reserved

| Couldn't
| there be developed a standard to insert delimiters as in long decimal
| numbers (there all 3 digits) all 4 digits?

How about $ff01 0000-$ffff ffff, i.e. just a space between every 4 digits.
Since we must indeed avoid dot, comma and colon, there seem to remain few
other choices. And since decimal numbers are sometimes written with
spaces instead of , or . this seems a sensible choice.

| Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions...