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: 103376,42adabd56e1a9620 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jeff Carter Subject: Re: ? A 'pocket' Ada please? Date: 1997/05/23 Message-ID: <3385925B.7DFD@spam.innocon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 243413685 References: <19970522171200.NAA05000@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: Wouldn't You Like to Know, Inc. Reply-To: carter@spam.innocon.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John Herro wrote: > > Alexander Yakovlev writes: > > Could someone plese give me a pointer to a > > small 16-bit DOS implementation of Ada (I > > have seen an ancient Artek Ada ... )? > > Much better than Artek Ada is the once-validated Meridian Open Ada (83), > now available from D.C. Heath in Indianapolis, 800-334-3284. I've used it > on a pocket computer with a 2MB SRAM card configured as a disk drive, > and *no* real disk drives, floppy or otherwise! It runs great on a 7MHz > 8086/8088. > > Artek Ada was a subset (never validated), and it had bugs, especially in > the Native Code Translator. Although I produced the very first version of > my Ada Tutor program with it, I gave up on Artek Ada a long time ago. > > R.R. Software's (800-722-3248) Janus Ada for DOS also runs great on > an XT, but I don't know if it's still available. > > - John Herro > Software Innovations Technology > http://members.aol.com/AdaTutor > ftp://members.aol.com/AdaTutor Note, though, that both of these are Ada-83 compilers. The poster asked for "Ada", which, as we all know, refers to the current standard, Ada 95. I'm unaware of any such beast. -- Jeff Carter PGP:1024/440FBE21 Auntie-spam reply-to; try ( carter @ innocon . com ) "Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python & the Holy Grail