• Cliff Jones (5/31/2012)


    EL Jerry (5/31/2012)


    Thank you for the question, Ron.

    I also got the right answers by elimination of the first 2 false statements.

    "El" Jerry.

    +1 but like Tom I was wondering about the 32767. Didn't seem like a logical choice for an ID but knew the other 2 were wrong.

    Go back to the very first days of Microsoft when they were working for IBM to develop a relational DB. In those days, Cobol and Fortran were perhaps the 2 most used languages in computing (outside of the basic Assembly language used by IBM to develop their operating system). In those days 18K of memory was huge. Indirect addressing of memory had yet to be developed, with all those restrictions the largest value that could stored in 16 bits was 32767. So, I am only guessing, that someone at MS with a long memory picked it as the value least likely to create a problem. No facts to back up my assumption, a pure guess on my part, take it for what it is worth .... which of course could be nothing. If you are curious enough use google to look up the IBM 900 or 901 model to learn what the "good old days" of computing were.

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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