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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: What if Red had won? [Or Blue?]
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:40:04 -0500
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On 7/17/2013 1:20 AM, Simon Wright wrote:

>> What about the color green? I ask becuase the RM I have dated 1983 is
>> colored dark green. I bought at a book sales show long time ago.
>

> "Ada is Green" was the cry at the time -- in other words, the Green
> proposal was the one that won the competition to become Ada.
>

I see. This explains why many of the older Ada books have green color
as main color for the book cover.

--Nasser