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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:06:11 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Uriel wrote:

> While we are at it... lets remember that young people don't know any
> history.  Everyone knows that the first language with garbage
> collection was Visual Basic.

When, in reality, it was Lisp. Who knew?

I actually know a bit more about the Bell Labs-rooted history of the
computer than about 99% people my age.

Some more questions:
What was the first object-oriented language?
	WHAT YOU MIGHT HEAR:
		- C++
		- Java
	CORRECT:
		- Simula
What was the first high-level programming language?
	WHAT YOU MIGHT HEAR:
		- BASIC
		- Pascal
		- C
	CORRECT:
		- FORTRAN I
First microprocessor?
	WHAT YOU MIGHT HEAR:
		- 8086
		- 68000
	CORRECT:
		- 4004
Microsoft's *other* operating system, besides OS/2:
	WHAT YOU MIGHT HEAR:
		- I doubt there was one.
	CORRECT:
		- XENIX
Name the most important person/people in the computer field to date.
	WHAT YOU MIGHT HEAR:
		- Bill Gates
		- Steve Jobs
	CORRECT:
		- Thompson & Ritchie, all the way! :-)
		- Alan Turing
		- The great Structured Programming trio: Hoare, Dijkstra, and Dahl
		- Knuth
Name the computer that started it all.
	WHAT YOU MIGHT HEAR:
		- The first IBM PC
	CORRECT:
		- The DEC PDP-11
What other thing, besides Unix, was the PDP-11 famous for?
	WHAT YOU MIGHT HEAR:
		- ???
	CORRECT:
		- Tetris!