GNAT version for IBM OS/2 now available

GNAT version for IBM OS/2 now available

[Bernard Banner]

			Second Release of GNAT.

The GNAT system (version 1.45) for PCs running IBM OS/2 is now available.
Also available is a new version of GNAT for the Sun Sparcstation which
mirrors the GNAT OS/2 version. See the gnat-intro and release notes
(rel0802.txt) which are bundled with the system for details.

The GNAT system is available in the anonymous ftp directory "pub/gnat"
on cs.nyu.edu (128.122.140.24).

Once again we remind our eager users that this is still a preliminary release.
The fact that this release is bootstrapped, i.e. is sufficiently strong to
compile itself, is a nice proof of existence of GNAT but no more than that: the
system is currently only an implementation of a subset of Ada83 (enough of
a subset to write a compiler!) and we do not expect to have a reasonably
complete Ada 9X system until the TriAda conference. We think that the parser
(full Ada 9X) of the current version, the interesting library management
system, and the overall performance of the system, will make this early
release interesting to the Ada community, even in its embryonic form.