Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors

From	Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors
Date	2014-05-06 20:23 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<14-05-020@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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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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Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors "lpsantil@gmail.com" <lpsantil@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 16:02 -0400
  Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2014-05-04 07:04 +0000
  Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2014-05-04 19:06 +1000
    Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-05-05 00:47 +0000
      Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2014-05-06 01:23 +1000
      Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-05-06 10:55 -0400
        Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-05-07 00:12 -0400
          Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2014-05-21 18:37 +1000
            Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2014-05-22 13:37 +0200
      Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors mac <acolvin@efunct.com> - 2014-05-06 18:02 +0000
        Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-05-07 05:34 +0000
  Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2014-05-05 08:28 -0500
    Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2014-05-06 20:23 -0700

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