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From: iav1917%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (alan i. vymetalik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: DEC Rainbow Quote for the Month (repost, oops!)
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Date: 6 Aug 89 03:50:20 GMT
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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