From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,eb425f6e2a82939b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bjarne.backstrom@telia.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bjarne_B=E4ckstr=F6m?=) Subject: Re: Ada compiler in BASIC? Date: 2000/04/16 Message-ID: <20000416223409129159@t4o921p4.telia.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 611964140 References: <8db57c$g94$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7LoK4.1681$lM4.395575@news.pacbell.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 955917213 213.64.21.124 (Sun, 16 Apr 2000 22:33:33 MET DST) Organization: Telia Internet NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 22:33:33 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: wrote: > > I am trying to find the Byte magazine article about an Ada compiler > > written in BASIC. > A search of the on-line title indexes for Byte for 1988-94 > (byte.index/digest.nn on BIX, nee Byte Information eXchange) doesn't > find any hits on Ada. The first message in BIX's ada/general forum > apparently is dated 1986, but the content has been scrolled off-line. > I posted a query there. > You might inquire at RR Software since, I believe, they had the > first or second Ada for PCs and advertised in Byte, so they would > have noticed such an article. > I don't recall any such article and would be quite surprised if > it existed. A search on my local disks...found this abstract. :-) If this is the same compiler, the article actually appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal, issues 75, 77, 79 and 81 (January to July 1983.) It's a "Tiny Ada" p-code compiler/interpreter, called "Augusta." There were two sets of source code, written in Microsoft BASIC and Borland Turbo Pascal. The article also mentioned a 160 page book about Augusta, that was available from Microsystems Inc., 4147 Beethoven Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90066. /Bjarne.