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On Friday, February 24, 2012 2:32:43 PM UTC-7, tmo...@acm.org wrote:
> >  The obvious repercussion of this is that there weren't any cheap
> >  compilers (say, in the US$50 - US$100 range) that you could run on
> >  your PC at home, so no one could experiment with the language.  Ada
> >  essentially missed the boat in the PC revolution, and so was never
> 
>   The obvious lesson here is that advertising is supreme.  There was
> in fact a $100 Ada that ran on DOS machines - I know because I bought
> it to try out this new language named Ada.  I think the ad I saw was in
> Byte magazine, but it surely wasn't as much press as Lotus or Ovation(?)
> the never-did-exist system described in a cover article.

It probably wasn't legal to use the term "Ada" for an incomplete implementation and they were probably sued by the DoD.

If Borland bought it and re-sold it as Turbo-Ada who knows what would have happened?