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Article #169Re: DEC Rainbow Quote for the Month (repost, oops!)
From: alan i. vymetalik
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1989 03:50
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1989 03:50
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In article <1254@cs.rit.edu> iav1917%ritcv@cs.rit.edu, I wrote:
> Another in randomly distributed set of quotes about the Rainbow.
>
> For nostalgia and ol' time spirit lifting...
> [ quote repeated below... ]
OOO! I'm gonna get flamed on this one! Well, there's a first
time for everything, I suppose. This is the first time I've taken
a quote (for a review or article) and did not attribute the
source. So, with tail tucked between my legs, and my head hung
low, I am reposting the quote with the source. Forgive me.
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
Development for Turbo Pascal 1.0 began on a DEC Rainbow.
"It was a great machine," Hejlsberg [Anders Hejlsberg, the
originator of Turbo Pascal and who has 'single-handedly
written the compiler and libraries for each release of
Turbo Pascal'] remembers. "I was doing a Z80 version and
an 8080 [sic] version, and the box had both processors.
You could get MS-DOS for it, too. So I had everything on
one machine -- it worked out perfectly. Of course, as soon
as we could get our hands on a PC, I got a PC."
- Computer Language, July 1989
("The Past, Present, and Future
of Professional Programming" by
J.D. Hildebrand, p.66.)
Enjoy,
Alan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!rit!ritcv!iav1917 From: iav1917%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (alan i. vymetalik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Re: DEC Rainbow Quote for the Month (repost, oops!) Message-ID: <1255@cs.rit.edu> Date: 6 Aug 89 03:50:20 GMT References: <1254@cs.rit.edu> Sender: news@cs.rit.edu Reply-To: iav1917%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (alan i. vymetalik) Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Lines: 32