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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: RE: Mac OS System 8 & Ada95
Date: 1996/09/10
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In article <00001a73+00003453@msn.com>, KMays@msn.com (Kenneth Mays) writes:
> This is just to let you know that GNAT V3.05 is available for both 
> the Mac 68K and PowerMac.

Everything I have heard so far indicates that for 68K the resultant
applications can run only under the Tenon environment.  That means
someone writing a commercial application would only be able to sell
it to customers who also bought the Tenon environment.

For the PowerMac environment, the situation is reportedly much better,
and at least one person expressed to me a goal of fixing the situation
for 68K, but as I understand the current situation the two platforms
are not at parity.  For most commercial purposes it is not possible
to exclude 68K users.  Anyone who was busy writing MacOS 8 -only
applications (implicitly PowerPC-only) got a rude awakening in
August when the president of Apple indicated there would be many
successive System 7 enhancement release (implicitly 68K-capable)
before MacOS 8 arrived.

Larry Kilgallen