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Posted by Philip Ronan on 12/05/06 18:27
In article <1165341880.733604.304550@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com>,
ccnyonuk@yahoo.com wrote:
> Ο/Η Andy Dingley wrote:
> >
> > PS - the idea of "just the processors handle pointers" hasn't been true
> > for 20 years either (even longer on big iron)
>
> This is bullshit. You don't even know what a Mac "handle" is.
PMFJI, but I think memory address translation has been around
considerably longer than Mac handles. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging for example
> To the OP: I've been programming Macs sinve 1984: What this guy says
> about Mac handles and links to webpages is basically true. It is simply
> an analogy between the concept of Mac handles and links to redirection
> pages.
No, what this guy is saying is total bollocks. He's advocating a wonky
system of redirects based on <META> tags when there are tools designed
for this purpose that do a much better job (DNS, Apache redirects).
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