From: "John Keeney" <jdkeeney@iglou.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]
Date: 2000/01/16
Date: 2000-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38827ab1@news.iglou.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: QDSgmSAAWbg4Ewqy@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk
Paul J. Adam <Paul@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:QDSgmSAAWbg4Ewqy@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk...
> In article <85sbv7$6ea$1@ssauraab-i-1.production.compuserve.com>,
> Keith Willshaw <keith_willshaw@compuserve.com> writes
> >The people that wrote the DEC Fortran that I got stuck
> >with told me they couldn't imagine why they would ever
> >move off VAX, Theywere the most cost effective machines to
> >do it on.
> >
> >Most of our customers are now on $1500 PC's and we
> >are back to Standard Fortran
>
> I remember writing Fortran 77 code on a PDP 11/70... (took two
> hours to compile and link 25K of code)
>
> I'm getting old and I'm not even thirty yet :)
You're not even thirty and you were working with 25K programs on an 11/70?
Doing what in God's name?
The last 11/70 I used was VERY early '80s and ten years later I knew people
who they were being given to in exchange for hauling them off. Turned down
one myself about '94.
> --
> There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
> praiseworthy...
>
> Paul J. Adam paul@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk
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2000-01-12 0:00 [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests] Rocky
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-12 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
[not found] ` <Ft6f4.2216$iy5.114812@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-12 0:00 ` David Tannen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Harry Andreas
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-12 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
[not found] ` <3d8f4.2267$iy5.117569@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
[not found] ` <yxof4.2433$iy5.130692@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Gautier
[not found] ` <38821915.B56815F8@maths.unine.ch>
[not found] ` <85t9oa$867$1@ssauraaa-i-1.production.compuserve.com>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw
[not found] ` <oHcg4.2964$iy5.180009@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-16 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-17 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-17 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Robert S. White
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Robert S. White
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-17 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Chris Douglas
2000-01-18 0:00 ` P. S. Norby
[not found] ` <QHvg4.3143$iy5.200225@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David Gillon
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Stuart Palin
2000-01-17 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David Tannen
2000-01-18 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
2000-01-18 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Roga Danar
2000-01-15 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Paul J. Adam
2000-01-16 0:00 ` John Keeney [this message]
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Paul J. Adam
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Keith WIllshaw
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
[not found] <sBvg4.3142$iy5.199834@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` tmoran
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