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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>
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Subject: Re: Historical Implementations to Garbage Collectors
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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