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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,571c2f1e2615501a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Tucker Taft Subject: Re: Ada and Mainframes Date: 2000/01/21 Message-ID: <38891D21.AA678A7E@averstar.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 575995370 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3887C455.326E0BA4@home.com> <388882F9.D6EC4665@telepath.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@inmet2.burl.averstar.com X-Trace: inmet2.burl.averstar.com 948509931 25253 141.199.15.31 (22 Jan 2000 02:58:51 GMT) Organization: AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jan 2000 02:58:51 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-22T02:58:51+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > "David A. Cobb" wrote: > > > Then I read a newer edition (ca.1994 I think) and there was no mention > > at all. Did IBM cancel it for lack of interest? Or is it still out > > there somewhere? > > I don't know about the mainframes, but I know IBM sold their workstation > (AIX) Ada compiler to OC systems several years back. Hmmm.... > > A quick tour of their website http://www.ocsystems.com/ shows that they have > a product called "LegacyAda/370" for OS/390. I'd bet that's your compiler. > > I had a chance to meet some of the OC Ada guys a few years back, when they > were doing on-site support for a project I was working on. They were all > real nice folk. I'm bummed I never really got to use their compiler. AverStar also has an Ada 83 compiler for the IBM mainframe. We are considering porting our Ada 95 compiler to OS/390, so let us know if you might be interested in helping to underwrite such an effort. > -- > T.E.D. -Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com AverStar, Inc. (formerly Intermetrics, Inc. Burlington, MA 01803-3303