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21 Jul 2025 06:12:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Daily WTF [again]  
From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 12 Feb 2008 15:00:11
Message: <47b1facb@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:

> Do you 
> seriously think you can add support for VM, protected mode, networking, 
> and lots of different kinds of hardware without making the OS more 
> complicated?

I guess the killer question is "can you do it without making it buggy". 
I think you can. Clearly you think it's impossible. (Or just impossibly 
expensive anyway...)

>>>> The STOP messages give generic error codes.
>>> Fortunately, the Amiga was far superior in this regard. ;-)
>> Yes. It didn't crash. ;-)
> 
> Either you weren't programming at the time, or you're a far better 
> programmer than I was.

I was programming in Pascal - why?

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