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

["Miguel Farah F." <miguel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Tony Stuckey [15/08/2001 17:14] dijo/said:
>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.

Ah, how far have we come from VAXocentrism...

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