Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors

Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>
Tue, 06 May 2014 20:23:15 -0700

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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 20:23:15 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
References: 14-05-001 14-05-015
Keywords: GC, history, Basic
Posted-Date: 06 May 2014 23:33:17 EDT

On Mon, 5 May 2014 08:28:48 -0500, "Charles Richmond"
<numerist@aquaporin4.com> wrote:


[snip]


>In the Microsoft BASIC used in the TRS-80, there is a bug in the string
>garbage collection. As far as I know, this was *never* corrected, but as
>the string space fills... the GC fails way too soon. This is sort of
>historic, as the TRS-80 was using MS BASIC in the early 1980's.


          I never heard of that, and I would appreciate details as I had a
TRS-80. Microsoft made many of the BASICs of the time. Was this bug
in all of them? Most of them? Just for the TRS-80?


Sincerely,


Gene Wirchenko

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