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From: chittamu@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Satish Kumar .C)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: writing operating systems in ADA
Message-ID: <481@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 89 00:45:28 GMT
References: <16422@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <6991@ingr.com>
Reply-To: chittamu@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Satish Kumar .C)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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In article <6991@ingr.com> phil@ingr.UUCP (Phil Johnson) writes:
>Intel attemped to build an Ada-based machine (using Ada to write the operating
>system) but found that it was pretty much a wash. The restricted lexical 
>elements could not support general languages which used characters not allowed
>in Ada (APL comes to mind - ain't no Thumbnail in Ada).  I do not have any 
>references to the Intel machine, but perhaps someone on the net does.

I believe the Microprocessor that Intel developed as an Ada based
machine was the iAPX 432. You might want to check on that though. I
have been told (but I make no guarantee) that there was an article in
IEEE computer sometime around mid 1985.