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- From: Ari Lukumies <aril@cmt.lpr.mail.carel.fi>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: 16bit vs. 32bit
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 12:28:46 +0200
- Organization: Carelcomp Products
- Message-ID: <316252DE.5DBE@cmt.lpr.mail.carel.fi>
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- Larry Weiss wrote:
- >
- > I wrote:
- > >
- > > 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?
- > >
- >
- > And, how did that programmer "screw up" ?
-
- On a previous post, Steve Summit said, "If you find yourself needing to know the
- sizes of things in bits, someone screwed up". I was trying to make a point that
- maybe no one screwed up - things just evolved. This is one of the cases we run
- into every now and then; when a customer needs a new system s/he usually wants
- to keep some of the old system's information around. Nowadays this often means
- that the platforms also change and thus the format of the information becomes
- relevant.
-
- Later,
- AriL
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