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From: iav1917%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (alan i. vymetalik)
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Subject: DEC Rainbow Quote for the Month
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Date: 5 Aug 89 06:18:17 GMT
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   Another in randomly distributed set of quotes about the Rainbow.

   For nostalgia and ol' time spirit lifting...

      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."

   Well, you can't win them all... I guess.  I wonder if Hejlsberg's
   rememberence of the Rainbow has something to do with the fact 
   that Turbo Pascal is the only compiler (at least the command-line
   version) that still runs unassisted on the Rainbow.  Even the
   command-line Turbo C and Turbo Assembler programs won't run 
   without some patching.

   Enjoy,
   Alan

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