jdg@elmgate.uucp (Jeff Gortatowsky) (02/09/86)
In reference to all the messages about the origins of BCPL ..... fine.
Thank you. Most informative. But......
What the heck is a BPTR and how should it be used (ie when converting from
a normal APTR), and WHY is it used in AmigaDOS? Is it a normal pointer,
long word aligned, shifted right by 2? Why by 2 (assumming the BCPL
langauge knows only of word data types)? It would seem the LS Bit (bit 0)
is the Word/Byte selector. Why long word aligned?
If I've made silly mistakes please feel free to flame.
Thanks for the help.
Oh yes.... Bob Peck, I haven't forgot about that letter I was going to
scribble off. It's just I got my V1.1 kit a couple of days age and have
been virtually in a catatonic reading state ever since! So far the 1.1
RKManuals seem like winners.
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Jeff Gortatowsky {allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!husky!jdg
Eastman Kodak Company
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