Null references (oh no, not again!)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Georg Wrede" <georg.wrede at iki.fi> wrote in message 
news:goqtd8$sdl$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>> I've still got this computer, in mint condition!
>>
>> I designed, soldered, and wire-wrapped together my first computer around 
>> a 6800 microprocessor, wrote the rom software, etc. Those days are long 
>> gone.
>
> Alas, they are! Today kids won't do that with a quad-core...
>
> Incidentally, I just realized why I've had such a problem with hello.d at 
> ~200k. It doesn't fit on a Kaypro floppy!!!
>
> In the old days one had the OS and dozens of programs on one. I need to 
> start thinking outside the floppy ^h^h^h^h^h box.
>
> (Oh, the last D2 makes a much smaller hello, thanks!)
>

Don't mean to spam or anything, but the guys over at xgamestation.com have 
been trying to keep that alive with hobbyist kits. Disclaimer/Bragging: I 
wrote some of the demo software and drivers that comes with their Hydra 
(which has 8 cores :) ).