[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] is_normal_tile function

[Tony Stuckey <stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:05:02PM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
> But it's faster!  I like it when I see clever optimizations that I wouldn't
> have thought of myself.  I wonder what would happen to if tried to compile
> that on some old 70s computer that didn't use twos compliment?

        One of my first computer related jobs was an operator for a CDC
Cyber. (60-bit words, 1's complement math, water-cooled, huge system)
It was finally retired in 1992.
        It's definitely given me a different perspective from the "all the
world's an i386" that shows up so often.
-- 
Anthony J. Stuckey                              stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"And they said work hard, and die suddenly, because it's fun."
        -Robyn Hitchcock.