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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5f8432149982f35e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fca1b,5f8432149982f35e X-Google-Attributes: gidfca1b,public From: "Pat Rogers" Subject: Re: Ada and QNX Date: 2000/10/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 682916622 References: <8r1i82$ri3$1@kujawiak.man.lodz.pl> <8r5pe5$h70$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8FCDFD7EEnopenopena@63.209.170.206> <39EA6305.CD5CFE1F@ix.netcom.com> <39EA9161.6469DDE2@home.com> <8sf9p0$kpg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39EB42B1.A14BDCB6@motorola.com> <8sg733$fe2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39EBDC99.9A4252F2@home.com> <8si6u2$3lt$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39ECAD59.20C486B@motorola.com> <39ECE5C1.918BCF3B@motorola.com> <8skcoc$s0i$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 X-Complaints-To: abuse@swbell.net X-Trace: nnrp1.sbc.net 971881589 208.191.184.67 (Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:06:29 CDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:06:29 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.os.qnx Date: 2000-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:8skcoc$s0i$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > In article <39ECE5C1.918BCF3B@motorola.com>, > Igor Kovalenko wrote: > > I did not mean for him to 'count trees'. I lived and worked there > > (east side of Baikal lake) and that had its bright moments. In > > reasonable dozes yes, it might be good for mind integrity. I have to > > Ahhh. I take back my joke then. Lake Baikal is supposed to be beautiful. > It used to be the cleanest freshwater lake in the world. I think it > holds something like 1/5th of all the freshwater in the world. > > You have to realize that in the US (and possibly western Europe too, I > don't know) "Sibera" is known primarily as the place dissedents got sent > to work in Soviet prison camps. Even for those of us who realize it is a > very large and diverse area, the first image that comes to mind is > prisoners working with pick-axes in a snowstorm. Before the soviets, the Czars would exile people there, but not to hard labor. They had nothing to do, thus the 'counting trees' saying. --- Patrick Rogers Consulting and Training in: http://www.classwide.com Deadline Schedulability Analysis progers@classwide.com Software Fault Tolerance (281)648-3165 Real-Time/OO Languages Adam ... does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant. Mark Twain