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Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: # of Available Ada 95 Programmers??
From: "Paul D. Stachour" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:44:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> from "Hal Hart" at Jul 22, 97 08:17:51 am
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Reply-To: "Paul D. Stachour" <[log in to unmask]>
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>I (Paul Stachour)had written:
> >..l.
> >(I built a 1.2MB compiler in 1960 that ran in 88K and compiled
> >programs of size 20,000 symbols in 128k [ PL/S II for IBM OS/360])
>
Hal Hart Corrected me, saying:
> The 360 wasn't introduced until 1965.  I know because I was working
> as a summer trainee for IBM that summer.  I'm sure people inside IBM
> were working on s/w for it [long] before 1965, but 1960??
>
>       -- hh
>

And I agree.  Should have been "1970" instead of "1960".
Ugh. Wrong key. Ugh. 3 lashes with wet noodle. Ugh.
..Paul

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