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d...@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes) writes:

>coms...@waikato.ac.nz (Alistair Veitch) writes:

>I thought it was TYA vs TAY, but I may be wrong.  Mind you, it *was* a
>disk sector editor that he was writing, so you kinda expect a bug in
>such a thing to be fatal, especially if one tests with one's work disk
>in the drive at the time.  I thought at the time "What bad luck," but
>now consider the situation a little along the lines of "Well, he did ask
>for it."

Isn't it great how when you start a new assembler program (personally a 6502 on
an Atari), you get a new disk, put all the support stuff on it (editor/asembler
if you were lucky enough to have them) and your very careful for the first few
test runs.  But, as the code gets more and more complicated, more and more
difficult to replace, you get lazier and lazier with backups and flipping the
drive door open before a test-run.

I was lucky enough not to actually trash any of my code, but with the small
(very short-lived) play with ramdrives when they first came out on the atari
I lost a bit of work with those (wow! look the memory behaves just like a disk-
drive...what happens when I fill it up...kabooooommm!!!)

Of course with the PC's these days with much bigger ramdisks, you can lose
even more data without even trying.

rik.

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