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From: Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>
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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
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"Larry J. Elmore" wrote:
> 
> In article <3A5B1984.2A6148AF@acm.org>, "Marin David Condic"
> <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> wrote:
> 
> > Just for grins, go visit: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/jovial/jovialg.htm
> 
> No can do. There's a notice that the site has moved to:
> 
>         http://www.jovial.hill.af.mil
> 
> And when I tryo to go there, I get:
> 
> Error 403
> 
> ERROR
> 
> Access Denied by oogate Firewall
> 
> The following error was encountered:
> 
>      Access Denied by Firewall Access Rules.
> 
> Access control configuration prevents your request from being
>  allowed at this time. Please call 7-DATA if you feel this is incorrect.
> 
> Oh well.

I got a look at the site before it got closed.  The first page had
a notice that there was an MS-DOS Jovial compiler targeting MS-DOS.
I clicked on that link, but the page it took me to showed some 
VAX compiler or such, nothing about MS-DOS.  

The site didn't have a lot of content that I found, although I might
not have clicked on everything, just some info to let one know that
Jovial was alive. I couldn't find anything to download, any samples 
of jovial code or documentation of any features of the language or
anything else of interest to a software developer besides some product 
announcements for platforms that I don't use.  I think it had some info 
about where to write or whom to call if one had a legitimate paying
interest (ie DOD contract) related to Jovial.

I suppose they got too much traffic or too many calls after the link was 
posted here, so they hid the site to protect national security or the
peccadillos of some nervous bureaucrat.


Al