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From: sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: The Terminator - The future of computer science demonstrated
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Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 13:46:49 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 28 13:46:49 1984
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Well, forget your Smalltalk, forget your Modula-2, forget your Prolog,
forget your 80286; go see "The Terminator" and you will see that the
robot of the future -

A) runs Apple DOS
B) is programmed in COBOL.

Watch some of the graphics in the movie that supposedly represent the
programming of this robot from the year 2060, and you will see COBOL
program fragments, plus a lot of an Apple 6502 Assembler program known
as "Key Perfect" (Version 4.0).  At least the code is well documented.


I liked the movie anyways.  Lots of action.  Arnold Schwarzenegger -
what an actor!  Lots of people getting blowed up.  Blowed up real
good.  No helicopters though.

Steve Hayman