Re: History of Ada - was Interested about number crunching in Ada

[Gautier <gautier@fakeaddress.nil>]

>> Note: The DOS (MSDOS or IBM DOS) version, allowed one to use the
>> "pragma NO_RUN_TIME ;" to create a bootable stand-alone Ada
>> program. But when Microsoft drop DOS so did GNAT drop its DOS
>> version, bassically making the pragma functionally obsolete.

Stuart:

> For ref: the current version of GNAT supports a "No Run Time" option 
> (GNORT) - and many other compiler supporting the embedded market provide 
> minimal (or no) run time system options.
> 
> The NYU DOS compiler (Ada/Ed) is still available on various archives of the 
> PAL - it is identified as freeware (as in free beer).  This does not seem to 
> square with your early statements regarding DEC broad ownership of critical 
> language related libraries - so may not be the one you are referring to!

BTW, a fresh GNAT build for DOS is done periodically under the DJGPP project
news:comp.os.msdos.djgpp ; http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

I have not checked recently how well the DJGPP Ada compiler works, but it is there (ada421b/d.zip 28.07.07):
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu or mirror sites.
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