On August 22, 2001 03:45 am, steve wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:38:37PM -0600, J.P.Pasnak wrote: > > On August 21, 2001 08:51 pm, J. C. Woods wrote: > > > steve wrote: > > > > No doubt, I'm just saying that Bell Canada developed it orignally for > > > > their purposes and made it available to all. =) > > > > > > > > Two years ago it could only be downloaded from Sympatico [division of > > > > Bell Canada] servers. FWIU their code is what's the basis of Roaring > > > > Penguin et al. > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 > > > > ---------------------------- > > > > > > You mean Canada actually produced some technical products :-) > > > > > > drjung > > > > http://www.craigmarlatt.com/craig/canada/symbols_facts&lists/inventions.h > >tml > > > > 'nuff said :) > > Heh, actually I'd rank the Avro Arrow farther up on the list. That's > where the Yanks got most of the technology for the F-1x's. Canada had a > twin engine high altitude fighter JET before the rest of the world, > which when scrapped most of the engineers went to McDonnell Douglas. > [I think it was McDonnell Douglas] My father worked on that project and > was very bitter that it was scrapped under U.S. pressure. > This was in the mid 50's - quite an acheivement. > > Anyways this is getting way off-topic. I won't reply anymore to this > onlist. Excuse mois. OK, last OT post for me too. But to finish up, twenty�six of Avro's top engineers, including Jim Chamberlin from British Columbia, Avro's chief of design, were sent by the Canadian government to NASA, where their skills played a crucial role in landing an American on the moon. Chamberlin was later described by NASA management as "probably one of the most brilliant men ever to work with NASA." Highly skilled Avro engineers made their contributions in almost all fields of aviation and technology throughout the Western world, not only with NASA but also with Boeing of Seattle, RCA in Massachussetts, Hawker�Siddeley of England, Fokker of Holland, and the European Space Agency. There, got that off my chest.... -- "Live fast, die young, you're sucking up my bandwidth" J.P. Pasnak, CD Warped Systems http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca http://canopener.ca
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