Re: Maximum String size in Java?

From: CBFalconer (cbfalconer_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:16:00 GMT

Programmer Dude wrote:
> gswork@mailcity.com writes:
>
... snip ...
>>
>> CP/M : circa 1980
>
> At that point in our history, we were mostly mini or mainframe from
> a number of vendors. We had a lot of Vaxen and HP3000s onsite and
> IBM big iron behind well-locked doors. A few locations has Suns of
> one flavor or another.

On the contrary, at that time I made a point of having my Pascal
run unchanged on either CP/M or the HP3000. This also applied to
the compiler. Output files would compare equal with equal input
files. The machine architecture etc. was somewhat different.
However ISO standards are very helpful in this respect. 

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