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Subject: [RTTY] RTTY ??
From: ekki@plicht.de (Ekki)
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:41:50 +0200
> Slowing down a computer to run programs "better" just doesn't make sense
> these days...
> Please don't flame me - you gotta do what you gotta do, but it's sad!  Hi

The problem is within the old Borland Pascal compiler. In some part the
authors decided to use a loop to do some timing (bad programming style
anyway) and use the loop result in a division.
On fast computer the resulting value is zero and therefore leads to a
"divide by zero" error, which isn't handled (another bad programming example
:-)

There are two ways to circumwent this -
The author must get the latest libraries for this old compiler and recompile
his program.
Or the user uses "Moslo.exe" or a similiar program...

It is indeed stupid to artificially slow down a fast machine, as if the
softwre from Redmond wouldn't do that already enough  :-)

73,
Ekki, HB9/DF4OR



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