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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Retro-Computing! 
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
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References: <D5yxwn.5BG@sdf.saomai.org> <D60HJE.1zx@world.std.com> <1995Mar27.122235.13616@ivax>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 19:55:37 GMT
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In article <1995Mar27.122235.13616@ivax>,
Mark H. Wood <mwood@indyvax.iupui.edu> wrote:
>Pssst!  Don't tell this guy how we used to do (small) program development
>entirely in FILDDT....

Wimps. Even as late as 1982 we were running multiuser on a system with
12K of RAM under Polyforth. All you big iron people are WIMPS. Real
programmers do *realtime*. If you can afford to be a few milliseconds past
the deadline now and then you consider yourself *lucky*.
