From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed1.swip.net!news.astraweb.com!border6.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!voer-me.highwinds-media.com!peer03.am1!peering.am1!npeersf04.am4!fx31.fr7.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <$xmrKrHBKn6SFwXJ@ada-augusta.demon.co.uk> From: Mike H Reply-To: Mike Hopkins Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer References: <878utybjxc.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M (<8c+$+zb077Pti5diXa8NqJs7Yt>) NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.104.138.185 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: 1391096546 83.104.138.185 (Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:42:26 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:42:26 UTC Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:40:49 +0000 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3456496410 X-Received-Bytes: 1596 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:18327 Date: 2014-01-30T15:40:49+00:00 List-Id: In message , Bill Findlay writes >Someone else who knows what the DELTY instruction does! >Shall we let the others guess? 8-) > My sweetest memory of ICL 1900s was at the end of the shift when one typed "Die". To which the machine would respond "Really?". One then replied "Yes" and without even a sigh of resignation, the machine would say "OK" and comply. -- Mike Swim? Naturally at Severn Vale