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- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!utzoo!henry
- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Software/NASA employees
- Message-ID: <BxC50v.F4C@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 07:34:03 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.001418.7066@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1992Nov6.001418.7066@ultb.isc.rit.edu> dsf5454@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- >Hello... I was wondering if anybody knows HAL/S (High-order Assembly
- >Language/Shuttle)? That is, how different is it from regular assembly language?
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- It's not an assembly language at all. It's a rather weird Algol/Pascal-ish
- language with built-in vector operations.
-
- >Incidentially, is the area that KSC is in still referred to as Cape Canaveral
- >by its employees, tourists, or the local natives?
-
- Well, technically KSC is on Merritt Island, mostly.
-
- The general area is correctly known, by all and sundry including USGS maps,
- as Cape Canaveral. The name change to Cape Kennedy lasted only a few years
- before it was officially rescinded.
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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