From: sybus.sybus.com!myrddin!tct!psycho!f310.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Randy.Baer@u unet.uu.net (Randy Baer)
Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community
Date: 21 Sep 92 00:54:18 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32534.12DA37D1@psycho.fidonet.org> (raw)
> :
> : "Ada was not developed by Ichbiah, Firth, et. al as the result of
> : a conscious engineering effort. In fact, Ada was hacked together
> : by a couple of guys who needed a real-time OS for their PDP-8. The
> : real-time OS was needed so they could play games, and do a little
> : programming on the side..."
Sounds like the same story about how UNIX was devloped.
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1992-10-06 18:32 Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community Bob Kitzberger
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