From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: MicroSoft to purchase Aonix?
Date: 1997/06/02
Date: 1997-06-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Jun2172640@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 865101014.29snx@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl
In article <865101014.29snx@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl> jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) writes:
> 1. Ada is not like Betamax since it is currently available on almost all
> relevant hardware platforms;
The primary reason why Ada is not like Betamax, is Ada is _not_ an
enduser "commodity" and Betamax is (was...) This comparison is a
_category error_, and hence not just "wrong", but rather completely
meaningless in the context.
/Jon
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-05-29 0:00 MicroSoft to purchase Aonix? Mike D Bates
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-05-29 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
[not found] ` <01bc6c71$0d641ba0$220b6dce@my-pc.neosoft.com>
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-05-30 0:00 ` jim hopper
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Scott Stallcup
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-06-05 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
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1997-05-30 0:00 gilbert prine
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Mike D Bates
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