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"W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <[log in to unmask]>
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W. Wesley Groleau x4923
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Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:20:21 -0500
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> .... spent several years working with the R1000, where the OS was Ada, and
> there was no command-line, rather, there was a "command window" which was an
> Ada declare block--no JCL, no shell scripts, no .BAT files, just 100% Ada!
> Boy was I disappointed...

Rhetorical question (but go ahead and answer if you wish): Why did the
R1000 & Delta die when it was so obviously "superior" ?  Does that sound
like another common lament from our group?

(I also once used a Unix shell which was designed so that a screen capture
would look like an Ada program.  It also never caught on....)

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