From: XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ? array[n] or array[n+1] ?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:44:15 GMT
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El día Thu, 13 May 1999 19:35:34 -0400, Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
escribió:

>> >Outcome #3:  Something terrible might happen.  Worst case scenario (never known
>> >anyone it has happened to, but it's possible): overwriting some buffered portion
>> >of a hard-drive or memory mapped io could desroy data or hardware.
>> Hardware? You must be joking.
>
>    Well, there's the old story about the non-multi-sync monitors that you could
>break if you switched the mode too fast.  
[snipped]

OK, I get the idea. But I think it is just too difficult to make any
of these things happen.

Regards,
GUILLE

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Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (ya sabes :-)