[Coco] 6809 CC Reg Overflow bit

[Salvador Garcia]

 Thanks William, I can relate 100% to what yo say. Although in my case, it isn't a matter of years, I find errors in posts right after I hit the Send button :-S. Salvador

PS: I am hijacking my own thread :-) I was given a document about a piece of software with your name on it. It is an assembler language program for the Color Computer, dated back in the 80s. From what I read, it is some sort of debugging tool for developers. I can't remember the name... I am planning on typing in the listing and tinkering with it, eventually :-S. If I get to that point, I am hoping on sharing my finds, but wanted to ask you whether it is ok with you if I need to reproduce the listing. Sorry that I can't remember the name. I can provide it in a follow up post after I get home, since I theoretically know where the document is.



    On Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 1:13:29 PM CST, William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:  
 
 On 2018-11-07 10:52 a.m., Salvador Garcia via Coco wrote:
> I suspected that it could be an error, but wondered how it could have gotten through the edit process. I have not looked for an errata for this book.

It's extremely easy for something like that to slip through. A typical 
editor would be looking for correct grammar and things like that and 
wouldn't necessarily understand the content even if they were paying 
attention to it, which they usually won't be.

That leaves the author to catch things like that. Unfortunately, the 
author knows what it is supposed to say and will often miss when it 
doesn't. Been there, done that. Have you ever written something (even a 
blog post) that you proofread a dozen times (and fixed errors every 
time), basically to the point where you were certain it was perfect? And 
then, several years later, did you go back and discover, to your horror, 
some glaringly obvious error? This is the same effect.

That said, sometimes deliberate errors are left in to trap plagiarism. 
That's probably not the case here, but it does happen. This is 
especially useful in cases where there are limited ways of expressing 
things correctly but unlimited ways of getting things wrong. Think fake 
towns or roads on maps for instance.

-- 
Coco mailing list
Coco at maltedmedia.com
https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco