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From: m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone using prodigy with an AMIGA?
Message-ID: <805@tnc.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 91 13:22:59 GMT
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Reply-To: m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT)
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Assuming no massive conspiracy, what's probably going on is that
stuff.dat contains a memory image of the last Prodigy session (so that
it can start-up and put you back where you want to be).  MessyDOS has
no real memory control system, so whatever was in RAM before you start
Prodigy will still be there unless it is specifically overwritten.  If
the Prodigy software later saves the entire memory image, then areas
that were never overwritten (like never-used data transfer buffers)
will contain fragments of whatever was there before.  Just about all
software for the PC is suceptable to this: I first noticed it when
programming in Turbo Pascal: my executable file seemed to contain
fragments of the program source code (which was in the Turbo Editor
just before Turbo compiled the program in memory, and saved it off to
disk).

Wildstar