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August 1998, Week 3

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Donna Garverick wrote:

> anybody want to wax poetic about 'candy' (was that how you spelled
> it?)?  i remember (in college) when candy got fired up and the system
> came to a screeching halt 8-]                 - d
>

It was CANDE, which ran on the larger Burroughs machines, not on the B80/800.  I
had some exposure to CANDE, and, as I recall, it was very nice OS for its day,
assuming you had the horsepower to run it.

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Tom Brandt                     Northtech Systems, Inc.
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