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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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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