From: kkuzba{at}centurytel.net
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

* Author: andrew clarke
AC>  These days I'd discourage anyone to learn C in a DOS
AC>  environment just because there's basically no memory
AC>  protection when your program runs amok, eg. a buffer
AC>  overrun in your program could easily lock your machine
AC>  even if you're running the program in a DOS Window under
AC>  Win9x/ME

    I still have my 486sx25 on which I compiled and ran a QC2.5
 program which overran a string buffer.  It did a spontaneous
 reboot, after executing the code to write from a memory buffer
 to the CMOS.  My system came up without any hard drive info and
 consequently couldn't boot at all.  That was an interesting
 experience!  At least it didn't accidentally set a gibberish
 password while it was about it.  I had to dig up the specs for
 the hard drives, but everything was there once the system could
 access them once again.  I've been very careful about
 overstepping the bounds on my text ever since, oddly enough.

>  kkuzba{at}centurytel.net   http://home.centurytel.net/kkuzba
>  'What's the matter?' asked Merry. Are you lying on an ant hill?'

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