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From: phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Q & A
Message-ID: <31059@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 May 89 22:58:20 GMT
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In article <7356@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>In article <30935@apple.Apple.COM> phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone) writes:
>>Well, that is not economical. When we launched a version of Lode Runner
>>under A/UX, guess who was watching the clock ticks rather than using an
>>A-line trap? (A/UX normally updates the ticks much less frequently).
>
>Interestingly, when I was talking by e-mail with an Apple employee last
>year about all the compatibility problems with 6.0, he told me that
>Lode Runner was an example that proved that perfectly conforming
>applications could be written.  Guess that's now out the window.

I correct myself. A/UX had the bug, not Lode Runner. (it still ran slow
enough for me to get many many points ... :-) ). We fixed A/UX.

Anyway, other postings may the right points about why it is BAD to look at
low memory globals.

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