From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d78ba5da4a579fd8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch Subject: Re: Filename for packages? Date: 1998/10/05 Message-ID: <4OKLHRmCBjbX@nedcu4>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 397891841 References: <36176A49.2D6C05CA@phoenix.net> <6v9f67$bs2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6v9t8v$ldu$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <6vabm3$9pr$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > It's certainly nice to see the DOS version of GNAT finally appear, but I > must say I am suprized that you have a "lot of students with DOS/Win3.11 > systems". These days when you can buy a perfectly fine Win/95 preconfigured > system for a few hundred dollars, we very rarely run into this, if at all. > I did a poll on my current undergraduate class, and of about 30 people, one > was a Mac person, 5 were running Linux, and the rest either Windows 95 or > Win NT. None were running DOS or 3.1, and in fact, another entertaining > milestone, almost none had ever run these systems EVER :-) I just want to add some comments (no polemic): - If people having Windows 95 believe never having run DOS, they have maybe not very often switched on their computer. Well, the "Starting Windows 95..." message is a bit deceiving and could confuse beginners. - The DPMI server is one of the things which suffers the least of subtle differences between DOS/Win3.x, DOS/Win4.0 ("Win95") and Windows NT. No surprise that people are interested in shipping DLL-free 32-bit programs compiled with GNAT/DOS in order to run under Windows *.* . Of course it doesn't concern students, so I stop here... -- Gautier -------- Homepage: http://www.unine.ch/math/Personnel/Assistants/Gautier/Montmollin.html Software: http://www.unine.ch/math/Personnel/Assistants/Gautier/Gaut_FTP.htm