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Re: No Y2k Bug

Subject: Re: No Y2k Bug
From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 06:43:24 GMT
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Joshua P. Hill (XXjoshhill@mindspring.com) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 07:57:55 -0500, Bob Scheurle
> <scheurle@z-eclipse-z.net> wrote:

> >At my company (well, not _my_ company; you know what I mean) we use Ada
> >on a bare machine.  No operating system, no run-time system, just the
> >tasking built into the Ada language.

> That's interesting. Truth is, I haven't heard anything about Ada for
> many years now; I didn't know people were still using it.

The US Department of Defense lives and breathes Ada. The DoD also has a
stranglehold on Intel by insisting that all new versions of the
x86/Pentium are upwardly compatable with the 8086.

Cheers
David

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