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From: rdp@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: UNIX/C Software Programmer
Message-ID: <1780@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 10:05:09 EST
Article-I.D.: teddy.1780
Posted: Mon Dec  9 10:05:09 1985
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References: <7400001@uokvax.UUCP> <654@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Reply-To: rdp@teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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In article <654@mit-eddie.UUCP> gary@mit-eddie.UUCP (Gary Samad) writes:
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>Has anyone out there ever heard of a Hardware Programmer?
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>This is one redundancy that is showing up in the press a lot these
>days and really irritates me!

Sure! I'm one of them!

Back in my days as a tech at Northeastern University, I was often called
upon to "program" the two large analog computers that we had. Programming
consisted of setting wires up in a plug-board matrix to tell the whole
machine what intergrators were connected to whom and when, etc., etc.

T'weren't no "software" in these things, but the sure were programmable.

(How about the guys who set up mechanical sequencers and the like?)

Dick (more tolerant of what turns out to be reasonable English than
      some people seem to be) Pierce