Telesoft/Sun Ada compiler, info needed

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I need information about the Telesoft/Sun validated Ada compiler running
under Unix, but if you have the same information for the compiler under
ROS, please answer to.
1. Price.  The representatives here (in the Netherlands) quote a price of
   UKpound 5000 (about US$ 6500); which compares strange with prices for
   other validated compilers (most about US$ 25000), and with the Telesoft
   Vax subset compiler: UKpound 8000 (US$ 10000) in December 1983.
   Is someone able to enlighten me?
2. Speed.  How fast is it (compilation and execution).  More specific, how
   many full-time Ada programmers will comfortably served by such a compiler
   on a Sun.  Moreover, what do you expect if most of the programs will use
   floating-point.
3. Buggy?  Is the compiler buggy, and if so, how fast are errors corrected.
   How is it with the Ada run-time system?  How active is support from
   Telesoft?
4. Tasking.  How are tasks handled.  First, are they executed in round-robin
   fashion, or in a stacklike manner.  Second, execute tasks until they
   cannot go any further, or is there some form of time-slicing between tasks.

Answers by mail will be summarised on the net.  Thanks in advance, I sign
by .signature.
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