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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Standard for long hex numbers? (Was: Re: Amiga and its memory map)
Message-ID: <887@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 10:11:15 GMT
References: <2207@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> <18881@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <18881@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>
>Cheap-ass A3000 memory map:
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>$ff010000-$ffffffff	Reserved

I always have big difficulties reading such big hex numbers. 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 (or comma or hyphen instead of "'")?

We only would have to avoid the colon so that it couldn't be mixed
up with Intel-like segment addressing.

(And I myself would like to avoid comma and dot, because their use
in decimal numbers is already reverse in USA and Germany. That
produces big trouble enough, and I wouldn't like to cause such
crap again with hex numbers.)

Or is there already existing such a standard, only I don't know
it and nobody uses it?

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