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: 103376,9f5b05b9ce8aed62 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: sjames@wam.umd.edu (Scott H. James) Subject: Re: gnat for DOS Date: 1996/04/24 Message-ID: <4llr39$b2a@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 151217346 references: <317A8B31.CFD@easystreet.com> organization: University of Maryland, College Park newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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