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Do you know Deskwork? (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 10.05.2008, 03:38

> > TP is great ... as long as you don't attempt to divide by 0
>
> It's very serious. When we was learnig TP/BP on secondary school our
> professor warned us to make a safety in code to prevent zero division
> otherwise the CPU will be burned! I don't know if he meant it as a
> joke but it didn't look like, nobody got it.

Only TP7 (and BP7?) had the "cpu too fast" problem. And it could be fixed / worked around in various ways (TSR, patching .EXE, patching units). I assume this is what you meant (and I'm 100% sure rr can shed some light on that if need be).

Complete thread:

• Do you know Deskwork? - Laaca, 08.05.2008, 13:29 (Announce)
  • Do you know Deskwork? - Japheth, 08.05.2008, 14:19
  • Do you know Deskwork? - marcov, 08.05.2008, 18:20
    • Do you know Deskwork? - rr, 08.05.2008, 23:10
      • Do you know Deskwork? - DOS386, 09.05.2008, 07:18
        • Do you know Deskwork? - Rugxulo, 09.05.2008, 14:43
          • Do you know Deskwork? - rr, 13.05.2008, 10:45
        • Do you know Deskwork? - RayeR, 09.05.2008, 22:28
          • Do you know Deskwork? - Rugxulo, 10.05.2008, 03:38
            • Do you know Deskwork? - Laaca, 10.05.2008, 07:02
        • Do you know Deskwork? - rr, 13.05.2008, 10:37
      • Do you know Deskwork? - marcov, 10.05.2008, 20:56
        • Do you know Deskwork? - rr, 13.05.2008, 10:47
          • Do you know Deskwork? - marcov, 14.05.2008, 11:44
            • Do you know Deskwork? - rr, 14.05.2008, 11:58
              • Do you know Deskwork? - marcov, 14.05.2008, 12:08
  • Do you know Deskwork? - mr, 13.05.2008, 17:41