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,e86fa7a4ba7677cb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Shayne Flint Subject: Re: urgent question to maintain the ada-language inside the enterprise Date: 2000/09/27 Message-ID: <39D1D955.C5EA146E@ainslie-software.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 674646807 Distribution: world Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8ppqgs$j5n@drn.newsguy.com> <39BE218D.B26DF3FD@kg.hsanet.net> <8qmkfo$blb$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8qrrdk0191a@drn.newsguy.com> X-Accept-Language: en,ja Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ozemail.com.au 970050622 210.84.112.9 (Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:30:22 EST) Organization: Ainslie Software Pty Limited MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:30:22 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-09-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: nospam@nospam wrote: > In article , "Chris says... > > > > >And it doesn't have to be one or the other. My current favorite platform is > >a dual boot PC with (NT4/W2000) and Linux. This gives the best of both > >worlds, and you only need a single box on the desk. > > > >You can use MS Office to do all the usual corporate stuff (Staroffice > >isn't quite there yet), then hit ctrl-alt-del, and you have all the good old > >Unix "pigs in mud" Makefiles, CVS, editors, shell scripts and more. I do > >most Ada programming on Linux. > > > >I see this as being a common arrangement in coming years. > > Chris, > > my arrangment I think is even better than yours. > > I use Linux and have vmare running on it. I installed NT on vmware. > > vmware is a virtual PC. I do NOT have to reboot to use windows. I have > windows right now running inside an X window along side all my other > Linux applications. NOt only that, using SAMBA, I have all my windows > data saved on my linux disks (easy to manage backup etc..). > > It is great. The speed is not as good as when running windows native, but > for what I need it for, the speed is not that important (my hand is slow > anyway). > > check it out. you can get a 30 days free trial of vmware for linux. > http://www.vmware.com > > ps, this is not some sort of wine like thing, vmware runs ALL windows > applications, any one of them. you can install not only windows on the > vmware software, but any PC based OS theortically. I read that freebasd > could also be run on it. check vmware site for supported OS's. Have a look at www.win4lin.com - it seems faster than vmware and is a lot cheaper. Unlike vmware, however, it will only allow you to install win 95/98. If limux is your main platform and you use windows for office apps, then Win 98 is probably OK. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Shayne Flint, MIEAust, CPEng shayne@ainslie-software.com -- Ainslie Software Pty Limited http://www.ainslie-software.com -- -- AdaJNI - Using Java APIs with Native Ada Compilers ------------------------------------------------------------------