>> Yes, I remember this MEMF_CHIP/MEMF_FAST problem.
> It is the same habitude which now leads to the Y2K problem: "Hey,
More correctly, it's number truncation problem. Folk were worried about it
when DJ hit 10 000.
> who will ever use more than 2 decimals ?" converts into "Hey,
I was programming back then. When your mainfram had 129K RAM, disk drives
were 13 Mb and data was stored on tape, two digits was a good choice.
I have less sympathy, though with analysts who specified two digits in the
last ten years. Suing software vendors seem to me an entirely reasonable
thing to do if your contemproary software fails.
I worry too, about RDBMS software that thinks decimal numbers can be
stored as real (floating point) and programming languages without native
support for decimal numbers being used for accounting applications.
I wonder how many banks could cope with Biil Gates opening an account and
depositing funds equal to his nett worth?
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Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
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