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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f849b,857262ad7d0ad537 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1904a679c27288b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c2f4cdd9ccfb8ede X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1904a679c27288b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: markh@usai.asiainfo.com Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use? Date: 1999/06/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 488666306 Distribution: world Sender: Mark Harrison References: <7j1qng$4fp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37576ded.26569745@news.mpx.com.au> <7j8ac0$eah$1@uranium.btinternet.com> <7jh07e$tek$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jhp34$6f1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jjij7$qci$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jl9n3$n9j$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <19990610.7A689D8.FF4B@mojaveg.ridgecrest.ca.us> X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Trace: /wObnYljfwQqLWPcTznPz06lvkSPzjvQWNth/AUc50lBUjyCNt53wrF5WI+abs4qOCsEaJutjwrr!lbrmQUoshK6fAn2Tb2kwLjRJn4U4EG8gnvIOUQ5K7/dqnTS8e8Gov486mBt7xcXOYQ== User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-19990413 ("Endemoniada") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.36 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 04:14:10 GMT Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Everett M. Greene wrote: (talking about Ada) : It took 16 years to produce something which is useful? : And this is after it took 10+ years to get to the `83 : product? To be fair, a lot of that time Ada vendors, proponents, etc, were counting on the government to push things forward. Now, it is Ada activists pushing things forward with "real stuff". So it really isn't realistic to confuse the old Ada mentality with the new one. -- Mark Harrison "Open the floppy disk door, Hal." AsiaInfo Computer Networks http://usai.asiainfo.com:8080/ Beijing, China / Santa Clara, CA markh@usai.asiainfo.com