From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7961088baf0e34d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nasser@apldbio.com Subject: Re: AIA Position on Ada Date: 1996/08/27 Message-ID: <4vu98k$64t@lex.zippo.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 176805997 references: <321DA0F3.34BC@lmtas.lmco.com> <4vrgvb$if7@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <4vs3fq$324@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> organization: Perkin-Elmer Applied BioSystems newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: How did a discussion about AIA position on Ada become one about flooding, video stores and VHS vs. Betamax ? I just love newsgroups ! :) Nasser -- Nasser Abbasi. C/C++/Ada Solaris. Perkin Elmer - Applied BioSystem division. email: nasser@apldbio.com MSEE, MSCS, MSCE, Fide chess master (FM). "640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." Western Union internal memo, 1876. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.