Ada News Brief - 96-08-02.txt [1/1]

Ada News Brief - 96-08-02.txt [1/1]

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Ada News Brief
Week Ending: August 2, 1996

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FIRST Ada DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR MACINTOSH CREATED 
THROUGH THE ATIP-P
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Tenon Intersystems, in a joint venture with Ada Core 
Technologies and McKee Consulting, is creating the first Ada 
development environment for Macintosh and Power Macintosh. 
The project, which is funded in part by the Ada Joint 
Program Office's ATIP-P (Ada Technology Insertion Program 
Partnership), is extending Tenon's UNIX system for Apple 
computers to include the GNAT-Ada 95 tool suite. This 
ATIP-P effort is one of ten competitive awards to different 
vendors to stimulate utilization of the Ada 95 language by 
bringing to market a variety of products that support the 
Ada language.

Because the GNAT Ada front-end will be released to the 
General Public License (GPL), free availability of the 
system and its source code will be ensured. This will 
provide a low-cost Ada development environment for academic 
and government markets. 

Tenon's MachTen UNIX/Mach software for Macintosh and Power 
Macintosh supports a complete GNU software development 
environment. The GNAT-MAC team brought Ada 95 to the entire 
range of Macintosh platforms by leveraging Tenon's existing 
gcc development tool suite. Preliminary versions of GNAT-MAC 
are available now on the Internet (http://gnat-
mac.com/macada). 

For more information, contact Tenon Intersystems at: 1123 
Chapala St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Tel: 805/963-6983, 
WWW: http://www.tenon.com

SOURCE:
Tenon Intersystems Press Release, June 24, 1996.

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SUCCESS FOR SEAWOLF SUB MEANS SUCCESS FOR Ada
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U.S. Navy and shipbuilding industry officials say initial 
trials of the service's SSN-21 Seawolf attack submarine 
herald a new era in undersea warfare, according to Defense 
News. Those within the Ada community may recall the 
development of a large Ada-based Submarine Combat System 
(SCS), the AN/BSY-2 and a subset, the AN/BQG-5, by Lockheed 
Martin (then Martin Marietta) Ocean, Radar and Sensor 
Systems. Together, the AN/BSY-2 and the AN/BQG-5 comprise 
more than 4 million lines of unique Ada code that were used 
in the Seawolf submarine.

The AN/BSY-2 development program is proof of Ada's 
capabilities in large, extensive, embedded systems. The 
AN/BSY-2 SCS is said to be the most advanced system of its 
type in the world, the "brains" of the Seawolf submarine. 
According to the article, the Ada technology used on the 
Seawolf has proven to be a true success, "The combination of 
the speed and the stealth and the weapon-carrying capacity 
of this ship really makes it the most powerful warship in 
the world: not just the most powerful submarine," said Adm. 
Bruce DeMArs, director of naval nuclear propulsion, in 
describing the initial trials.

For the complete success story "Going to Sea With Ada," 
printed in Defense Electronics, October 1994, contact the 
AdaIC at 1-800/232-4211.

SOURCE:
Holzer, Robert. "Sea Trials Prompt U.S. Navy to Tout Seawolf 
	Sub's Virtues," Defense News. July 15-20, 1996: 12.

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Ada GUI DEVELOPMENT TOOL RELEASED
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XVT Software Inc. recently announced the release of 
Development Solution for Ada (DSA), the industry's first 
cross-platform, graphical user interface (GUI) Ada 
development tool. DSA allows programmers to build high-
performance, client applications rapidly and then port the 
applications to a wide variety of platforms. DSA was 
developed through a U.S. Army contract and is available 
immediately.

For more information, contact XVT Software Inc. at:
4900 Pearl East Circle, Boulder, CO 90301. Tel: 303/443-
4223, Internet: info@xvt.com, WWW: http://www.xvt.com

SOURCE:
XVT Software Inc. Press Release, July 15, 1996. Obtained 
from Business Wire via Individual Inc.

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NEWEST Ada COMPILER VALIDATED
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The AJPO issued its first validation certificate last week 
for ACVC Version 2.0.1 -- the newest version of the test 
suite --- to Thomson Software Products. The compiler name is 
7000 OA ObjectAda for Unix for HP-PA RISC/HP-UX, Version 
7.0. The compiler's host and target is HP 9000 J200 running 
under HP-UX 10.01.

SOURCE:
Ada Joint Program Office


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