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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!voer-me.highwinds-media.com!npeersf03.am4!fx27.fr7.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: From: Mike H Reply-To: Mike Hopkins Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Low-level programming in Ada? References: <7x1u64hk2p.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <981741794397689133.903473yaldnif.w-blueyonder.co.uk@news.individual.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8;format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M (<8Ez$+Tvw77f+C5diGK2NqJMOjG>) NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.104.138.185 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: 1376209217 83.104.138.185 (Sun, 11 Aug 2013 08:20:17 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 08:20:17 UTC Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 09:17:26 +0100 X-Received-Bytes: 1469 X-Original-Bytes: 1686 Date: 2013-08-11T09:17:26+01:00 List-Id: In message , Simon Wright writes >Later, Ferranti Bracknell had a 6-storey building with a back stairwell >which came in handy for unravelling those piles of 8-hole punched tape >you get when the middle drops out of the reel. In the absence of a suitable stair well, hoola-hoops hung from the ceiling were a very useful tool for that purpose. -- Mike "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto" = "I am human, (so) I (should) judge nothing of humanity to be strange." Publius Terentius (195/185–159 BC)