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@ 1993-02-16 0:47 rob
1993-02-16 1:11 ` David Hogan
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From: rob @ 1993-02-16 0:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sam-fans
it's probably that the host and terminal exchange a pointer
in the protocol and it's known to fit in 4 bytes.
you'll need to fuss with the protocol, making it
incompatible with other architectures. sigh.
-rob
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1993-02-16 0:47 rob
@ 1993-02-16 1:11 ` David Hogan
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From: David Hogan @ 1993-02-16 1:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sam-fans
> it's probably that the host and terminal exchange a pointer
> in the protocol and it's known to fit in 4 bytes.
> you'll need to fuss with the protocol, making it
> incompatible with other architectures. sigh.
> -rob
One way of doing this would be to replace the pointers in the
protocol with 32 bit offsets from the start of the arena. That
way, unless the arena grows to be greater than 4 gigabytes (!) 4
bytes will still be adequate, and the modified samterm should still
interoperate with sams on other architectures.
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