29 Nov
2000
29 Nov
'00
7:24 p.m.
Mike Ford wrote:
[snip]
machine that nobody was buying outside academia (that
I knew of). Next
thing you know the professor from UCSD and one of his students (Roger
Sumner I think) had ported the Pascal to the Apple II, and despite the
original Pascal being done at UCSD, and IMHO by a LOT of student work, they
set up a business with the "new" product.
hahaha surprised eh..... not me this is typical in Italy, extremely
common. During one of my course the teacher told us that it was MANDATORY
to participate at the development a Z8000 cross assembler in order to
just think to participate at the final test. Previously, another teacher
had introduced me in the world of software freelances so I
new that you could make money with software ;-) it was around 1983.
The funny thing was that I was one of the persons at the custormer's site
that had to evaluate the cross assembler!!! HEHEHE This teacher was
really embarrassed when we met for the startup of the activity and I
magically was removed from ALL mandatory software developments during
his course. Nice thing so I wouldn't have to fight for CPU time on a 11/34
and used a 11/780 at the customer's premise.
Sorry for the OT stuff, but I love to remember this memory ;-)
e.
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