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From: munck@STARS.RESTON.UNISYS.COM (Bob Munck)
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In INFO-ADA Digest V91 #173, brett@decwrl.dec.com  (Bevin) says

>... I suspect that the major (Ada compiler writers) [DEC, Rational, Verdix, 
> Alsys...] and many of the others [...]
>had already completed their first Ada products by the time the large numbers
>of people from SofTech and Intermetrics came looking for jobs.  I know that
>was the case at DEC, and are fairly sure about the other three I named.

Gee, when I interviewed with the DEC team doing the Ada compiler, about
half -- Ike Nassi, Larry Shaffer, Earl Van Horn -- were former
SofTechers. Earl probably left before the DOD-1 work got started at
SofTech, but not Ike or Larry. I think Ike is now running an Apple
research center in Maryland and Larry is a member of the Intermetrics
Ada-9X group.

Also, Alsys, being a rock-throw away, was rotten with ex-SofTechers.
TeleSoft got a lot of the SofTech Microsystems refugees, including their
CEO. I happen to think that we form a pretty distinguished alumni/ae
group; Tri-Ada meetings are practically SofTech Reunions.

Bob Munck