Walter Bright Wrote: > Georg Wrede wrote: > > Walter Bright wrote: > >> Inspired by Don Clugston's recent compiler patch. > >> > >> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/87vqv/signaling_nans_rise_again/ > >> > > > > > > Yess! > > (And I loved the war story at the beginning!) > > It's interesting because it's right before computers moved in and > replaced everything. If I'd stayed another year, I'd have bought (with > my own funds) a desktop computer and put it on my desk. I'm sure that > within 2 years Boeing would have automatically supplied me with one.
Hmmm... I'm trying to recall when it was that Boeing started "automatically" supplying desktop PCs. I know they didn't do that when I started here (1985). I know they first started supplying the office assistants (they were "secretaries" back then) with Wang word processors not too long after I started. I seem to recall my boss getting a PC at some point. I can't recall exactly when, but it had to be five years or more after that. I was hired at Boeing as a software engineer (my degree is in mechanical engineering) so I always had access to a computer, but it was always either a computer for the system we were designing or it was test support equipment. But a desktop computer for general use didn't occur for a long time. Paul
