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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: [Z-Machine] multiple undos (long)
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:30:20 GMT
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Greg Falcon (professor.falken@pnx.com) wrote:
> >Yeah. The spec is our spec, not *the* Z-machine in any sense.  (Your
> >investigation into how Infocom's interpreters work *is*, in quite an
> >important sense.)

> My investigation into how Infocom's interpreters work is WHAT?
> (Sorry, I just woke up, and I'm a little lost.)

Is an investigation into *the* Z-machine. (Not definitively, but 
significantly.) 

> >My original contention (boiled down through the whole discussion last
> >time) was that it is not against the spirit of @restore_undo for
> >@restore_undo to revert the cache one stage. 

> Perhaps not against the spirit, but against the spec rules.  You said
> in a previous message (in some thread about TADS) that the Z-machine
> is compatible with these undos if an interpreter wants to support it.

> To me, "the Z-machine" means whatever is in the latest spec. 

I think the latest spec is incomplete. To you, that's a meaningless 
statement. Fortunately this doesn't bother me epistemologically.

:-)

Also, none of my interpreters are compliant with Z-spec 0.2...

--Z
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