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From: andrewl@zeta.org.au (Andrew Lees)
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Subject: Re: Ada in Australia (was Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming
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wfan1@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (William Fang) writes:

>Brendan WALKER (bjw@f111.iassf.easams.com.au) wrote:

>[...]

>: It is also worth noting that of three Ada projects you mentioned, I know for 
>: a fact that at least two of these are in SERIOUS trouble, facing serious
>: architectual/design problems and the resulting cost and schedule slip (like 3+
>: years late!!).

>My brother remember a local computer company that made PDP (is that?)
>clones getting the contract to supply computers for the Submarines.
>He did work experience there and remembers tha machines ranged from
>full-tower boxes to machines bigger than large filing cabinets, that he
>had to climb on top of to get access to some components.

>This was about 10 years ago.  I'm not suprised that folks are having
>a hard time getting programs to work well on 10 year old computers.
>I'd be suprised if compiler vendors supported architectures that old.

>- Bill

Different submarines, different project, I believe.  (Previous generation).

Andy.