Jeez Phil you must be over 40!!!!! I bow to your superior sufferings
Much more of this pythonesque humour and we'll have to put a snake in the
temple....
Regards
Neven
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From: Phil Scadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 13 July 2000 14:56
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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