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From: dennison@romulus23.DAB.GE.COM (Ted Dennison)
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In article <CzAH3B.CtI@ois.com> beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith) writes:
 
>For every multi-threaded operating system I can think of, there _is_
>an Ada compiler that uses the native O/S threads for Ada tasks.

>        Lynx            Alsys
>        OS/2            Alsys
>        OSF/1           DEC, Rational
>        OpenVMS/AXP     DEC
>        SGI             Rational
>        Sequent         Rational
>        Solaris 2.X     Sun (Rational)
>        Win NT          Alsys, Rational

>I'm sure I missing quite a few.

         AmigaDOS        Nothing

>The free GNAT Ada 9X compiler is built on top of a POSIX threads
>library.  Thus, it always uses O/S threads for Ada tasks.

You mean, it always uses POSIX threads, if that O/S supports it.


T.E.D.