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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: bugfix for inews (control messages cause coredump)
Summary: those damned intel cpus.
Message-ID: <8565@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 11 Nov 88 07:39:59 GMT
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Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX
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In article <8@herron.uucp> jbrown@jato.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>We found a lot of bugs by running things under 286 large model...

i compile all of my new software in 286 or 8086 mode.  those cpus are so
brain damaged that merely making it thru the compiler and a short test
run is a very good indicator of correctness.

ps - i'm not joking.
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