reading legacy floppy disks

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:27:42AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> You're lucky.  When I took Fortran, BASIC and Pascal courses there, back
> in the mid '80s, we couldn't even use floppies.  We used an IBM
> mainframe there and the only way to get the code out, was via print out
> or dial up access.
> 
> When I took C at George Brown College in 1995, we could use 3.5"
> floppies.  However, in class we used Turbo C on Windows 3.1, while at
> home I used Borland C on OS/2, so I had to be careful about variable
> sizes.  For example an int was 16 bits in Borland C, but only 8 in
> Turbo.  On occasion, my code would work fine at home, but crap out in
> class because I'd overflowed a variable.

Don't 8 bit integers violate the C standard?  I thought it required
integer to be at least 16 bits.

> Also, when I was taking Fortran at Ryerson, I did my homework on a VAX
> 11/780 at work.  That also meant I had to be careful about a few things.

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Len Sorensen
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