On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:37:44 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> On Oct 10, 2007, at 7:15 , Keith Hodges wrote:
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>> Although many may not agree with me I think there is a lot of potential
>> for innovation using the chunk format, and it has the advantage that
>> most people have the tools to read it already.
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> It's incredibly flexible indeed, and goes back to the B5000 that  
> inspired Smalltalk.

Interesting. Having worked with almost all B5000 series and successors and  
still working with them, what's the chunk format on them (besides that it  
has no naked memory pointers, but descriptors)?

/Klaus

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