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From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Philosophical programming question:  handles
Message-ID: <870130@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 88 18:26:45 GMT
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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Did Apple invent the concept of "handles"? 

(A handle is a pointer to a pointer; it is
used for memory management purposes)

Do other small computers (IBM PC, Atari, Amiga,
etc.) use handles?

Do people ever use handles in a Unix environment?
Most Unix programmers I talk to have never heard
of a "handle"...

-Ted