From: Scott Stallcup <stallcup@stsci.edu>
Subject: Re: Ada for the Mac
Date: 1996/09/11
Date: 1996-09-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32372F8A.6490@stsci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bb9e89.5ee38da0$fc899dc0@fielding.east.alsys.com
Neil O'Brien wrote:
>
> Market forces, the original compiler was bought in too small a quantity to
> justify upgrading to System 7.
>
> ... we never upgraded because it was originally a product too few customers
> wanted. ...
>
I used the Alsys Mac Ada 83 compiler about 5 years ago (when Alsys
claimed to support it).
The compiler was full of bugs. I reported several bugs and sent
them small simple example code which showed the bugs. They never
fixed any of them.
They never advertised the product in any of the Macintosh publications,
developer magazines, etc.
I found that many of the Alsys user support and sales people didn't
even know that Alsys sold a Mac compiler.
The Alsys Mac compiler failed because Alsys didn't market
and support the product !
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Scott Stallcup
Space Telescope Science Institute
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-27 0:00 Ada for the Mac Brent Barker
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Greg Bond
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Kenneth Mays
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-09-09 0:00 ` full
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Neil O'Brien
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-11 0:00 ` full
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Neil O'Brien
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Scott Stallcup [this message]
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
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1996-09-06 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
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