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From: Brendan Boulter <brendanb@pdd.3com.com>
Subject: Re: DEC Ada tasks and multiprocessors
Date: 1997/05/27
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Organization: 3COM Corporation
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Date: 1997-05-27T00:00:00+00:00
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Mats Weber wrote:
> 
> We are running VMS 6.2 on Alpha's with multiple processors. We can't
> upgrade to VMS 7.1 now due to our customer's constraints (it's a large
> system with peripherals that are not yet ready for VMS 7.1 (drivers,
> etc.)).
> 
> We are using DEC Ada 3.3 for AXP, and our current problem is that we
> cannot use multiple processors for the Ada tasks in a single Ada
> program. We do not want to split the application into multiple
> programs/processes because that would be too much work.
> 
> I know that GNAT for VMS/alpha is soon to be released, but for VMS 7.1.
> We would be ready to change to GNAT, but we can't do the 7.1 upgrade
> now.
> 
> Is there really no way (perhaps by changing the Ada run time library ?)
> to make a single Ada program on VMS 6.2/alpha use multiple processors ?
> 
> Thanks for any answers/suggestions