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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dino Gianisis Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/12 Message-ID: <36E986A7.B2D4F977@spamming.stny.lrun.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 454337494 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <7c7coa$nvt$4@plug.news.pipex.net> <1999Mar11.080820.1@eisner> <36E7DC3C.8B322F23@silver.jhuapl.edu> <36E7E5E4.9FB37144@pwfl.com> <36E932BE.4FAEACE8@nospam.vf.space.com> <87hfrqxvak.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: newsr2.twcny.rr.com 921273597 204.210.149.149 (Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:19:57 EDT) Organization: TWC Syracuse NY MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:19:57 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: The last time the Motorola rep talked to me the Coldfire instruction set was not compatible with 68K ! Must have been his imagination at the time also !!!!. I dont know what the hell you're using but the 68K does not support any RISC instructions according to Motorola !!! But then again with a palmtop the imagination can run as free as possible I guess !!!. Chris Morgan wrote: > Gunther Dragoski writes: > > > I would think that wouldn't be too big of an issue with the use of > > industrial components today. As a matter of fact Motorola still > > supports the 68040 up to 40 Mhz. Companies such as Thomson & Chip > > Supply can screen these from -40 to +105 deg C. They also offer > > these services for PowerPC 603e (check their roadmap website) in > > case you need to jump to next generation embedded processor as 68K > > family is dead. > > Hmmm, guess the Motorola Coldfire "DragonBall" (68k based) cpu in my > Palm V must just be my imagination then! > > By the way, has anyone ported GNAT to the Palm yet? > > Chris > > -- > Chris Morgan "We're going to start selling Linux to single-party users very > soon. Q: It's going to be on the menu? A: Yes. You'll go to Dell, > pull down "operating system," and click "Linux." - Michael Dell