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From: osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: 68000 Assembly question -- overflow
Message-ID: <13758@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 31 May 91 15:57:16 GMT
References: <1991May30.161303.1930@umbc3.umbc.edu> <13745@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1991May31.054322.7297@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn)
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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In article <1991May31.054322.7297@neon.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:
>In article <13745@dog.ee.lbl.gov> osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn) writes:
>>Hey guys,
>
>>Don't you think this "68000 Assembly question" has gotten out
>>of the spirit of "comp.sys.mac.programmer"?  I don't give a
>>flying hoot about whether the mac uses 1's complement or 2's
>>complement, and I never will!  8^( Perhaps you'd care to move
>>your discussion elsewhere.)
>
>Gee, and all this time I thought that this group was about PROGRAMMING the
>Mac.  Last I looked, one needed at least a rudimentary knowledge of how
>data is represented at the bit level.
>
>But maybe you are using a high level language, so you don't need to know
>that kind of stuff.
>
>Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)

Boy there sure are some fragile egos out there.  TWO personal email replies
and a sarcastic post in reply to boot!

As long as you guys seem to think that it's ok for your discussion to
meander, I think it's ok for me to put in my 2 cents on what I think of
your discussion.  There is a reason that there are thousands of different
news groups - to reduce bandwidth (like this useless post! :-)

It's a free country (and world for the most part)!  Besides I felt pretty
sarcastic myself yesterday...

-- James

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