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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,56d944aeed1e3792 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Keith Hyman Subject: Re: DEC Ada on DEC Unix Date: 1996/03/21 Message-ID: <315178FC.663@srs.loral.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 143615854 references: <9603151509.AA01824@eight-ball> <314D7065.40CF@lfwc.lockheed.com> <1996Mar18.205521.1@eisner.decus.org> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Loral Space & Range Systems mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: hyman_keith@srs.loral.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Date: 1996-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > In article <314D7065.40CF@lfwc.lockheed.com>, "Byron B. Kauffman" writes: > > > I've been doing the Ada thing for about 8 years or so, with 6 or 7 of > > the 8 years spent working on DEC/VMS/Open VMS development systems for > > VAX and 68040 targets, with the remainder (and currently) being in UNIX > > environments - Harris HAPSE and SGI/VERDIX, to be exact. > > > My current situation is that are currently porting an EXTREMLY large > > piece of Ada (~4000 program units) to an SGI machine. Here's my > > "rhetorical" question - why can't the UNIX Ada development systems (with > > the obvious exception of the Rational Rose/APEX/etc. products) come up > > with something as good as DEC's? > So how does DEC Ada do on DEC Unix ? > > Supposedly it is comes from the same code base. > So how does DEC Ada do on DEC Unix ? > Supposedly it is comes from the same code base With some bugs... The version of Dec Ada for Ultrix that I used ate up 4k of RAM for every open and close of a disk file. At one point we lost 1.25 MB a day. This problem was known within DEC but not advertised or published to my knowledge. Eventually, we were forwarded the instructions on how to fix the ported LOW_LEVEL_IO.ada module.