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Kevin Cline wrote:

> Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message news:<3E1F4B6D.A8D5172F@adaworks.com>...
> 
>>The important point is that GNAT, for all of the good will toward Ada it
>>has generated, is not the only game in town.   ACT has done a remarkable
>>job with their current business model and produced compilers of excellent
> 
> Commercial RTE's like VxWorks and LynxOS have been ported 
> to most platforms and are much more popular than any Ada RTE. 
> I don't know if they are better or worse, but what is most
> important to system architects is that they are widely known to work,
> and they are well-understood by many embedded developers.
> In the real-time shops I've worked with, proposing Ada for a new
> project would be considered rather radical.
> 

Matre OS looks promising and quite easy to work with.

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