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Comment by tbrownaw

2 days ago

Simplicity of implementation?

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skissane  2 days ago

Not just simplicity-the original implementation was for a very resource-constrained 1960s minicomputer, where a more complex implementation would have slowed the system down even more and left less memory for running the actual business application

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