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Date: 18 Jun 93 13:26:19 GMT
From: adm!ovation!hipmac1.pica.army.mil!user@nyu.edu  (Steve Wall)
Subject: Re: Microsoft targets missile at Ada9X
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In article <SRCTRAN.93Jun14141508@world.std.com>, srctran@world.std.com
(Gregory Aharonian) wrote:
> 
> 
>     A recent announcement from Microsoft, while having nothing to do with
> Ada, will go a long way towards making the efforts of guys like Mike
> Feldman and the GNU Ada project irrelevant.
> 
>     In the June 14, 1993 issue of Computerworld, page 48, there is a story
> announcing that Microsoft will be donating the source code (4 million lines
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> of C++ code) to universities and research institutions around the country,
> similar to licensing of Unix by ATT in the 1970's and 1980's.
> 
Source code to what?  Windows?  DOS?  Windows Solitaire? :-)

Steve Wall