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To: Rande Is who wrote (1574)1/2/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: Wes Stevens  Respond to of 57584
 
That I know of it has not been traced. But it was a very common practice for early mainframe programers. When you had an 8k memory segment (no virtual memory back then) to work with every byte counted. It just became an accepted practice and got carried on long after there was a need to save memory.