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>> There was not only a 640 kb limit, there were some 64 kb limits
>> on the size of memory segments in most of the PC software prior to
>> 1987.  I don't recall ever seeing an Ada product or tool that would
>> run on an 8086 or 8088 without special hardware added.  Were there
>> any?
>
>I had the Janus Ada compiler running on a 386SX in the late 80s, and
>taught my then-15-year-old son to write Ada, while I was using DEC Ada
>at work.
  I still have a copy on my old Toshiba 3100 portable (286, 640K).
No special hardware.  It would produce either .com (64K, "small memory
model") or .exe ("large memory model") executables.
>
>Later, there was the Meridian compiler than ran on standard PC hardware
>(still late 80s or before 1992, I don't remember exactly)..
  Compuserve at one point had an Ada study group.  I got my Macintosh
Meridian Ada compiler at that time and ported the DOS Janus Ada program
that I mentioned earlier.