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From: "Paul J. Adam" <Paul@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]
Date: 2000/01/16
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In article <85sbv7$6ea$1@ssauraab-i-1.production.compuserve.com>,
Keith Willshaw <keith_willshaw@compuserve.com> writes
>The people that wrote the DEC Fortran that I got stuck
>with told me they couldn't imagine why they would ever
>move off VAX, Theywere the most cost effective machines to
>do it on.
>
>Most of our customers are now on $1500 PC's and we
>are back to Standard Fortran

I remember writing Fortran 77 code on a PDP 11/70... (took two
hours to compile and link 25K of code) 

I'm getting old and I'm not even thirty yet :)

-- 
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...             

Paul J. Adam                                  paul@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk