cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA (02/26/85)
/* > > > If anyone finds a card deck with a 1401 C compiler on it, please > > > let me know. Now that's a machine! 3-digit addresses and variable > > > infinite length ints, [...] > > > > I thought the largest int was limited by memory size ... > > Not on that machine. If no flag bits at all were set, then the int would > repeat the same digits over and over again, the length of each repetition > being equal to memory size. Isn't wraparound fun? Okay, no space limitation. But you forgot time! In this case, the `length' of the `int' is limited by the machine's `UPTIME!' Go back and reaudit `Hacker's Physics I' :-) jim */