Re: Re: Pragmatic Requirements Summary : update

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Eric Merritt wrote:

>  This wont work. If I am writing an OS or a device driver I need 
> pointers. Not only do I need them, but I must beable to specify the 
> area of memory they point to.

No, you don't.  You need a machanism to access physical memory locations.  
For example, "peek" & "poke" in various versions of Microsoft Basic.  I'll 
admit you need better mechanisms than those, but still the number of 
places that need to access physical memory, even in an OS, is relatively 
small.

-- Matt

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