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From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is it DANGEROUS to program your Mac...?
Message-ID: <870062@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 87 17:20:21 GMT
References: <870057@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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/ hpcilzb:comp.sys.mac / oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) /  8:34 am  Dec  5, 1987 /
In article <870057@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:

>A mac, fat mac, macPlus, or SE does not provide as much control over the
>waveform, so you should be safe. One exception: I have crashed the machine
>so bad that I've lost horizontal synch. (Symptom: a dim screen with a patterns 
>of bright, almost horizontal lines (at 25 degree) on the screen. If you see
>this, reboot immediately!)

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>If you are doing application programming, don't worry about this sort of
>thing. My experience has been that you are unlikely to trigger something
>disasterous unless you are writing near a danger area.  For example,

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Couldn't ANY bug (e.g., a function call with the wrong type of argument)
which does a write turn out to be a pathological monster and write near
a danger area?                     

	-Ted