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From: John Colagioia <JColagioia@csi.com>
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"John W. Kennedy" wrote:

> Gunther Schmidl wrote:
> > > Also, on a related note, was Cornerstone produced using a Z-Machine?
> > It was advertised as having a machine-independent runtime, yeah. However,
> > since it was only ever released for MS-DOS and crashes and burns if you run
> > it from a hard drive larger than, say, 20 megabytes, it isn't very
> > successful nowadays ;-)
> Other problems:
>   It depends on CGA NTSC color artifacting.
>   It uses a joystick, with CPU-speed-dependent code.

That sounds like a much niftier DBMS than Oracle and those sorts...even if you
were probably talking about Fooblitzky...

("Dude, the Chance Man just deleted half the rows in my table.  That's not
fair...I'm calling tech support.")


