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,c9bd72123c9b0d9c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: BiiN system Date: 1996/07/20 Message-ID: <4sr56l$2vh@felix.seas.gwu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169051118 references: <2.2.32.19960716060723.00688abc@mail.cts.com> organization: George Washington University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , David Emery wrote: > >With 20-20 hindsite, the BiiN machine would have been a perfect platform for >"modern" OO languages, such as Ada95, C++ or Eiffel. It's a damn shame >that the corporation couldn't make it work. > > dave I took a 3-day course from Intel on the 432, back around 1982. I still have docs from that course. The Ada compiler developed for that chipset was _most_ interesting. It was VMS-hosted, 432-targeted, and pre-Ada 83. Had some really interesting OO features that also happened to take advantage of the 432 architecture. Much of the 432 Ada compiler team was picked up by Verdix when Intel dropped the 432. That group became the core of the Verdix Ada compiler team; some are still at it, now under the Rational umbrella. Somewhere in my morass of papers I have a brief description of the 432 Ada language. I'll pull it out one of these days. Would it be useful - and legal - to put it in electronic form and get it on the net as an interesting discussion piece? Mike Feldman