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Subject: Re: Why we can't cater to bad code
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Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 22:02:05 EST
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>	Guru: That's no reason, silly computer nerd! You are hereby relegated
>		to the position of computer elf until 1999 or until you go
>		to work on a VMS system.

It is worth noting that if the aforementioned computer elf goes to
work on a VMS system, they'll learn not to dereference null pointers
*real* fast.  VMS does not permit references to location 0 unless you
do a bit of remapping on your own.  (It is also worth noting that,
according to a reliable source, a version of paging VAX UNIX done a
while ago at Bell Labs also did not permit references to location 0.)