Wirt Atmar ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
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: At the heart of this decision lay the extreme inefficiencies associated with
: the implementation of HP's VisiCalc (it was a resource hog of the first
: order; it is difficult to imagine how it was written so badly) and the
 
Well, it was written in Pascal/V, not SPL.    (Probably used Pascal I/O too!)
 
For another, I just noticed the following ASCII text in VISICALC.PUB.SYS
on a friend's Classic HP3000 (Deluxe VisiCalc    HP32133  (B.01.03)):
 
   Anthony Braxton for President!!!!!!!!!!!  who owe the fun to
   J.P.M. (He jumps with GOTO's)(He jumps on windsurfers)
   Tom Harper (She jumps in balloons)
   Lisa Towell(He jumps from planes)
   Scott Hanson (Invites workers to jump in hot tubs?)
   Illustrious leader; a real snapper of whips    Rob Shurtleff
   This stately update has been brought to you by:
   ALTERED STATES We survived being Jacked around in C / / S :?
 
(formatting mine)
 
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