TEAM-ADA Archives

Team Ada: Ada Programming Language Advocacy

TEAM-ADA@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

Options: Use Forum View

Use Proportional Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Pat Rogers <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Pat Rogers <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 16:53:44 -0500
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (32 lines)
You're right!!  Who would have believed it!  In fact I wasn't sure until I
saw the name itself below the symbol.

----------
> From: j.m.kamrad.ii <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Microsoft products use Ada!!!!
> Date: Monday, October 20, 1997 2:14 PM
>
> Just this weekend I made alarming discovery!
>
> As I gazed upon the cover of my Windows95 introductory documentation
(while
> waiting for Windows to reboot...again), my eyes were strangely attracted
to
> the watermark on the Certificate of Authenticity.  To my amazement, the
> watermark is a portrait of Augusta Ada Byron!!!  In fact, it looks
exactly
> like the one that SIGAda uses.  Check it out.
>
> Apparently, Bill knows a quality symbol for software when he sees
one...mike
>
> ps:  if this has been noted before then nevermind...
>
> ------------------------------------
> Mike Kamrad
> Computing Devices International         [log in to unmask]
> M/S BLC W2J                             1.612.921.6908
> 8800 Queen Avenue South                 FAX: 1.612.921.6552
> Bloomington MN 55431

ATOM RSS1 RSS2