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- From: Ari Lukumies <aril@cmt.lpr.mail.carel.fi>
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- Subject: Re: 16bit vs. 32bit
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:05:14 +0200
- Organization: Carelcomp Products
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- Steve Summit wrote:
- >
- > One of the whole points of using a high-level language is to
- > insulate you from low-level machine implementation details such
- > as the sizes of things in bits. If you find yourself needing to
- > know the sizes of things in bits, someone screwed up.
- >
-
- Yeah. Maybe it was the guy who wrote the program in a 32-bit Unix machine
- seven years back that stores data in binary format to a file you now have to
- read in a 16-bit DOS machine?
-
- Later,
- AriL
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