3 Jun
2003
3 Jun
'03
11:55 p.m.
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Cserzo Miklos wrote:
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N supposed to be an integer, i.e. 2 bytes.
Today's integer is usually 4 bytes. Back in the days of Apple IIe, IBM pc, TRS 80, etc, an integer was 2 bytes. That started changing when the 386 came out, about 20 years ago, with only backwards compatable code using 2 bytes.
I think it is safe to predict that in 20 years an integer will be 8 bytes.
Russ