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From: Erik Baigar <erik@baigar.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Free Ada83 compiler for older Solaris/SPARC or IRIX?
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:28:41 +0100
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
> Look at Blatstwave and, failing that, GNAT 3.15p on
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing
> 
OK, blastwave looks worth a try. Thanks for this hint.

> I don't know of such a thing in Ada 83.
Yes sorry, this is my fault. The piece of Ada code, I want 
to use was originally compiled using Meridian Ada which 
had a binding for VGA graphics supporting line drawing 
commands and so on.

> One alternative would be to consider replacing IRIX and Solaris with
> Debian GNU/Linux on both your boxes. 
I do not really want to do this step since over the years I 
compiled and installed hundrets of useful programs on 
these boxes I do not want to miss. Using linux, the way would 
be to get a cheap notebook on eBay and use this...

My hope was that someone out there has an old (maybe 
originally commercial but now discontinued and free)
compiler to share. I already asked at Aonix and
they claimed that it would be too much work to find the
QIC tapes for the old ActiveAda distrubution  :-(

> also GtkAda, all prebuilt and ready to go.  Then you'd have to convert
> your old program to Ada 95 but that's probably not going to be very
> difficult.
The program is about 1000 lines long, so it seems to 
be not too much work to adapt it to Ada95...

   Thanks,

      Erik.