Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Joel Garry
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 21:43

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In article <nevin-1709951616450001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes:
>In article <43d484INNlge@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>, c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca
>(Kazimir Kylheku) wrote:
>
>> I
>> suspect that the programmers probably had experience implementing
>> BASIC interpreters (kind of like Billy Gates), and applied similar
>> strategies to OS programming. ("Let's do garbage collection like old
>> Applesoft BASIC did on strings!")
>
>And why did they do garbage collection on strings in the first place? 
>Because the heap strings are allocated out of tends to get fairly
>fragmented, and memory in those days was a very, very limited resource. 
>This was still true when the Mac came out, and for a number of years after
>that.
Didn't billy write basic compilers before the mac came out?
>-- 
>        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799


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From: joelga@rossinc.com (Joel Garry)
Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
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Organization: Ross Systems, Inc.
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