Re: Wild computer language names

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From: pa... Bill Parke
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 14:58

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In article <22...@sparko.gwu.edu>, dut...@seas.gwu.edu (Sylvia Dutcher) writes:
|> From: dut...@seas.gwu.edu (Sylvia Dutcher)
|> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
|> Subject: Re: Wild computer language names
|> Reply-To: dut...@seas.gwu.edu ()
|> 
|> It's probably been mentioned, but do you remember the MAD
|> (Michigan Algorithm Decoder) language on the 709/7090 series?
|> The manual was a Carrollian delight, but there was method in it.
|> 

	You might, then, remember that MAD ran under MESS.
	Not a language, but the operating system
	(Michigan Executive Supervisory System I believe from the foggy
	  ruins of my mind).

--
Bill Parke 			parke%sta...@decwrl.dec.com
VMS Development			decwrl!star.enet.dec.com!parke
Digital Equipment Corp		pa...@star.enet.dec.com
110 Spit Brook Road ZK01-1/F22, Nashua NH 03063

The views expressed are my own.

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