On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:01:09 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: > >I've seen other "old" programs with many hard-coded offsets and lengths >and always wondered why this was such common practice back then. > >Was it because there were a lot of inexperienced assembler programmers >writing code? Was it because people thought the platform would not last >and treated every program as a "throw away"? Was it due to limitations >in the assembler itself? > Could some of it have come about by disassembling to reconstruct or reverse engineer unavailable source code?
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