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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Burroughs users?
Message-ID: <3789@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 14:32:07 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.3789
Posted: Thu Jan 15 14:32:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Jan-87 01:04:14 EST
References: <571@pbhyc.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: Unisys - System Development Group, Santa Monica
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In article <571@pbhyc.UUCP> jdf@pbhyc.UUCP (Jack Fine) writes:
>I was just wondering uh...are there any Burroughs mainframe users on the Net?
>Just curious.

Well, the answer must be no, since I haven't seen any articles with sequence
number in the 72nd column.

If you want *former* Burroughs mainframe users, you might get some.  Okay,
you guys, fess up.  How many of you have seen a Pascal program with sequence
numbers in the 72nd column?  I have.  I've written them.  Shudder.

When Burroughs bought System Development Corporation, a certain VP there
said, "Okay, now SDC gets to drag Burroughs kicking and screaming into
the 20th century."  I can say that now because Burroughs doesn't exist
anymore.

Now that we're Unisys, we're #2.  The question is, #2 at what?  I don't know
if we want to be #1 at everything #1 is #1 at.

Larry Wall
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