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From: cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA
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Subject: Re: diculous
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 16:58:41 EST
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> > > 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' :-)

	jim
*/