Re: Strange and wonderful prog names (was Re: Worst error messages...)

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From: pa... Bill Parke
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 14:43

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In article <20...@ttidca.TTI.COM>, holl...@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
writes:
|> 
|> Since no one's mentioned it yet:
|> 
|> The CP/M debugger was called the Dynamic Debugging Tool, better known as
|> DDT.
   ^^^
   Which reachecs back tothe PDP-10 and I believe the PDP-6 which were
   also in the era of Rachael Carson's Silent Spring.

   Then Stanford AI lab came up with SAIL and FAIL as high level and
    assempler languages.   They needed a debugger and of course called
    if RAID.

|> 
|> -- 
|> The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: holl...@ttidca.tti.com)
|> Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp(+)TTI             Illegitimis non
|> 3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (213) 450-9111, x2483       Carborundum
|> Santa Monica, CA  90405 {csun | philabs | psivax}!ttidca!hollombe
|> 
--
Bill Parke 			parke%sta...@decwrl.dec.com
VMS Development			decwrl!star.enet.dec.com!parke
Digital Equipment Corp		pa...@star.enet.dec.com
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The views expressed are my own.

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From: pa...@star.enet.dec.com (Bill Parke)
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Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names (was Re: Worst error messages...)
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