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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108abf,d3bcc180a8b0eea4 X-Google-Attributes: gid108abf,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d3bcc180a8b0eea4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Paul J. Adam" Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests] Date: 2000/01/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 573811741 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jrwlynch.demon.co.uk:158.152.109.165 References: <387C8859.621FA20B@netscape.net> <387CC1C0.4C57E34C@quadruscorp.com> <387CEE4A.3965@Ganymede.com> <387F8E50.11D27E14@quadruscorp.com> <85oclj$nbp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3880C8EC.37B66494@quadruscorp.com> <85qhvm$9qe1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <38816E17.8B24C111@quadruscorp.com> <85sbv7$6ea$1@ssauraab-i-1.production.compuserve.com> <38827ab1@news.iglou.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 948128969 nnrp-09:3870 NO-IDENT jrwlynch.demon.co.uk:158.152.109.165 Organization: Wholesale Lunacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: "Paul J. Adam" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,rec.aviation.military Date: 2000-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <38827ab1@news.iglou.com>, John Keeney writes >Paul J. Adam wrote in message >> 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 :) > >You're not even thirty and you were working with 25K programs on an 11/70? >Doing what in God's name? Modelling weapon and countermeasure launches from a submarine. >The last 11/70 I used was VERY early '80s and ten years later I knew people >who they were being given to in exchange for hauling them off. Turned >down >one myself about '94. Yep. This was 1988 and the 11/70 was available, while the VAX was overloaded, so as junior team member I got volunteered to use the PDP. -- There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and praiseworthy... Paul J. Adam paul@jrwlynch.demon.co.uk