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From: phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
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Subject: Re: New Shuttle Computers
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Date: 11 Mar 91 20:01:36 GMT
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In article <1991Mar10.210059.26743@nowhere.uucp>, sking@nowhere.uucp (Steven King) writes:
|>    It would be interesting to see some of this software. Some early 70's
|>  fortran code no doubt...

Nope.  I've seen some.  It's IBM assembly language.  I'm not sure about
its origins---it may have originally been generated by a compiler.  But
the assembly code itself has been modified (dare I say "hacked on") quite
a bit thru the years.  I'll try to get more details this evening.

		William LeFebvre
		Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>