Memmory retention without battery in pioneers

[wojtek]

(03-29-2016 09:21 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  

(03-29-2016 07:50 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  A bit OT: IMHO, the 35S s/w suffered more from poor testing than poor design/coding. The bugs are just about all corner cases, with several taking > 5 years to surface.

The infinite loop lockup was pretty bad. Any programmer can tell you that coding the occasional infinite loop is not a corner case.

Omitting labels and implementing jumps to line numbers is also designers mistake. It is a 30 years' old solution, very good for machines with 100 bytes of memory but implementing it nowadays in a machine with 30KB of memory was not an achievement.