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Date: 21 Sep 92 00:54:18 GMT
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
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> :
> : "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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