From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/17
Date: 1997-04-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.861335510@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5j4kfi$1g1@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com
Dave Smith said
<<I should have made a reference to MSDOS instead of basic>>
Then you would have been completely wrong. MSDOS (or PCDOS as it came to
be known -- the IBM version of MSDOS) were NOT bundled with the PC. You
had to buy them separately. The first version of DOS cost $40 (I remember
well having to buy it separately!)
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1997-04-10 0:00 ` Ada -- a popular language? Robert Dewar
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Stanley Allen
1997-04-11 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-04-11 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-04-13 0:00 ` Bill Keen
[not found] ` <5ivrre$en0@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <5j4kfi$1g1@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Byron
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Dave Smith
1997-04-23 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Latin1 Peter Hermann
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Ada -- a popular language? Michael Feldman
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[not found] ` <5j04g7$42s@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
[not found] ` <5j11vb$h86$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <JSA.97Apr16143427@alexandria>
[not found] ` <5j4kli$1g1@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dewar.861244012@merv>
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Tom Wheeley
1997-04-11 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Ingemar Ragnemalm
1997-04-16 0:00 Adrian B.Y. Hoe
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1997-04-16 0:00 Adrian B.Y. Hoe
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