Null references (oh no, not again!)

[BCS]

Reply to Georg,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Reply to Sean,
>> 
>>> We had a couple of Wang Word Processors (I think) in our school that
>>> used those, but I never got to touch one.  Only the PETs that used
>>> an external audio cassette drive for data storage.  Probably took a
>>> full 60 seconds to load a program from one of those things... not
>>> too shabby for a whole 4k.

60 seconds for a program load vs 10-30 now for VS or Eclipse

> You're joking, right?
> 
> They've got worse, by orders of magnitude. A 5 second boot with the
> Kaypro, versus (don't even know how long) for Vista on an average
> computer.