..In best West Yorkshire accent...
Luxury. In my day, had to sleep in cardboard box. Walk ten miles in driving
snow to get to school, where teacher would beat us....
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Scadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 13 July 2000 14:57
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Midas again
> What is huge about 96bits? in storage it is shorter than your name
Well multiply it by 12 million records and a 32bit key looks a lot more
attactive
> Now Sonny I remember in '85 I wrote a whole control system in Turbo Pascal
> that ran in a 48K TPA....whats a TPA!!.. I think my hearin aids broke....
So who are you calling Sonny? Wrote my first database on a 16k desktop
HP in something like Basic in 1980. (And then there was the finite element
modeller in Algol on the old Burroughs in 1978 before that...). I come over
and teach you but my walking stick is broke.
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Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
41 Bell Rd South, PO Box 30368, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Ph +64 4 5704821, fax +64 4 5704603
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