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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: diculous
Message-ID: <7015@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 13:20:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 27 13:20:16 1985
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The following "conversation" is reprinted from net.lang.c:

> > > > If anyone finds a card deck with a 1401 C compiler on it, please
> > > > let me know.  Now that's a machine!  3-digit addresses and variable
> > > > infinite length ints, [...]
> > > 
> > > I thought the largest int was limited by memory size ...
> > 
> > Not on that machine.  If no flag bits at all were set, then the int would
> > repeat the same digits over and over again, the length of each repetition
> > being equal to memory size.  Isn't wraparound fun?
> 
> Okay, no space limitation. But you forgot time! In this case, the 
> `length' of the `int' is limited by the machine's `UPTIME!'
> 
> Go back and reaudit `Hacker's Physics I' :-)
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   Norman Diamond

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