Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!metapro!bernie From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Lazy Hackers (was Re: AMIGAstation...) Message-ID: <1991Mar2.050325.1992@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> Date: 2 Mar 91 05:03:25 GMT References: <19154@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia Lines: 18 In <19294@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >"Did it wrong" == People who, intentionally or unintentionally, broke our >original rule that all Amiga code had to run in a full 32 bit address space. >The 68000 hardware gives you only 24 bits of actual address. Some lazy >hacker types in the early days of 68000 coding figured they could stuff some >useful stuff in the extra 8 bits of address pointers. Knowing of this >practice, the original pre-A1000 ROM Kernel Manuals made this practice >strictly forbidden. But this didn't stop everyone from doing it anyway. Which "lazy hackers"? I suppose C= could have refused to pay one of them :-) That would have stopped them. I don't think Bill wouldn't do anything unless he was making money out of it :-) -- Bernd Felsche, _--_|\ #include Metapro Systems, / sale \ Fax: +61 9 472 3337 328 Albany Highway, \_.--._/ Phone: +61 9 362 9355 Victoria Park, Western Australia v Email: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au