From: "Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>
Subject: Re: Limitations of Ada
Date: 1996/07/29
Date: 1996-07-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <96072915521064@psavax.pwfl.com> (raw)
David Weller <dweller@DFW.NET> writes:
>In article <31F54DE2.6EBF@acm.org>, Bob Munck <munck@acm.org> wrote:
>>Ada is unable to exceed the speed of light.
>
>Rumor has it that IBM is working on a practical solution to this by
>redefining 'c' :-) (A dual pun if there ever was :-)
>
But have you heard of IBMs new ultra-super-computer? It's supposed
to be so fast that it will execute an infinite loop in three
minutes.
186,000 mi/sec. It's not just a good idea... It's the law!
MDC
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-29 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93 [this message]
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Limitations of Ada Kazimir Majorinc
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Spasmo
1996-08-08 0:00 ` mpost
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Jack W Scheible
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-03 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Jack W Scheible
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1996-07-19 0:00 The Quelisher
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1996-07-24 0:00 ` David Kristola
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Byron B. Kauffman
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-07-29 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Klaus Wyss
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
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