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Re: Perl rules!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:14:57 GMT
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jsproat@io.com&SayNoToSpam&
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Don Heyse wrote:
> .COM programs used nothing but relative pointers and fit
> in less than 1 64K segment. That's tiny in my book. Nowadays, tiny
> rarely fits on a 1.44 meg floppy. [...]
> I sorta gave in and joined the bloat crew.
I, too, am a card-carrying member of the Bloat Crew. I was going to get a
Bloat Crew poster for the occasion, 'cause the feature set on those babies
looks like it'd be a lot of fun, but I couldn't fit it into my car.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat
Darth Maul Lives
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| Under duress in lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy "Bloat" Sproat has confessed to writing: (...) I saw the bloat crew the other day. They were working on a stretch of I-80 right near Albany (California). There was an amazing bloat almost hidden behind (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) The 1000-line limit in LEdit was a programming limitation. Nothing to do with anything evil in the OS, unless you consider lack of virtual memory evil (rather than just bad). Was the 8.3 file format originated with MS or DOS? I thought it was (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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