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Article #13Re: PC power supplies (the Joy of Standards)
From: Bob Eager
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:24
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:24
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On Tue, 23 May 2006 21:13:16 UTC, Rod <polygonum@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Ah - Millennium. If it hadn't been written so badly you wouldn't have > needed to write a compiler! But I do think that it might have beaten the > IBM implementation hands down in the end - probably thanks to that > compiler. I did a much better job on the VAX implementation. That was fun; by that time the guys in the USA were saying that it was impossible to do a compiler, and even it if weren't, it wouldn't make a difference. We sent the VAX compiler off to them and they went all quiet. I really enjoyed that.... -- The information contained in this post is copyright the poster, and specifically may not be published in, or used by Avenue Supplies, http://avenuesupplies.co.uk
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