In <[email protected]>, on 08/05/2011
at 02:24 PM, Ed Finnell <[email protected]> said:
>What was the RAND fiasco at SHARE in SFO? They were giving out
>PL/S tapes with the IBM doco. I almost made it back to the data
>center before my beeper went off...BRING IT BACK NOW!
That PL/S compiler[1] was written by Rand. It's not clear whether
there would have been an issue of the compiler itself, but they should
have known better than to violate the copyright on the manual.
[1] I don't know how compatible it was with IBM's PL/S
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