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From: "John Keeney" <jdkeeney@iglou.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]
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Paul J. Adam <Paul@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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