Re: gnat for DOS

[sjames@wam.umd.edu (Scott H. James)]

begin Dewar

  P.S. Even with the new version, you are well advised to move to a real
  32 bit operating system (OS/2, NT. Solaris 86, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
  Nextstep) to do any serious Ada development on a PC. Of these at least
  OS/2, Linux and NT support tasking fully.

end Dewar


Sigh.

While your comment is perhaps relevant to GUI and OS-application
programming, with regards to embedded programming your repeated smirks at DOS
smack of either gross ignorance or wishful thinking.  Due to DOS's relatively
low system overhead, straightforward access to hardware, and the
proliferation of ROM DOS chips, rest assured DOS is and will remain with us
as a low-end embedded OS option for many years to come.  To continually bash
DOS does nothing for Ada and perhaps, in the future, should be relegated to
comp.os.advocacy or alt.windows.and.mice.are.really.cool or some
other such group.

Thanks,
Dr. Scott