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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,77d4a86fa05b2ae0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed02.chello.at!news.hispeed.ch.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <2966752.CUgeivfvJJ@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: Is Ada on VAX/VMS Ada 95 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:57:03 +0200 References: <1151342831.094972.295360@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> <1151412502.125088.213180@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> <5VSlJvB8SZ3t@eisner.encompasserve.org> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@hispeed.ch Organization: hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.218.119.160 (80.218.119.160) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:00:33 +0200 X-Trace: e827c44a16431f57fd20527965 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5078 Date: 2006-06-27T18:57:03+02:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <1151412502.125088.213180@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>, "Chris > L" writes: >> >> Larry Kilgallen wrote: >>> If you want an Ada 95 implementation on the VMS operating system, >>> use GNAT Ada 95 for Alpha VMS. It has many of the VMS-specific >>> capabilities of the original VAX Ada. >> >> I will not be on the VAX for a few months. Is the GNAT Ada 95 compiler >> already on the VAX or do I have to buy and install it? > > The GNAT Ada 95 is not available for VAX at all. > It is available for Alpha VMS, which runs on the Alpha hardware. And IA64 OpenVMS - just saw it today on GNAT Tracker. > That said, some shops imprecisely refer to any machine running the > VMS operating system as being a "VAX". I figure they are not the > type of shops to choose strongly typed languages :-) I would think that all VAXes are now in a cosy little retirement home and the OP was just new to the wonderfull world of OpenVMS. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com