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Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:12:49 +0200
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On 20.05.11 17:59, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> How much do you want to bet that the F-22 software still needs to be
> developed on this ancient programming environment? If so, it's hardly
> any wonder that using it would cause significant delays.

TTBOMK, one or two companies, one in Switzerland, are actively developing
and selling efficient VAX or Alpha virtualization (if OpenVMS on
Intel can't be used) that runs on standard PC hardware.

So you'd get Common Desktop Environment (on X); good tools for
Ada development are then not difficult to obtain.