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: 103376,2565a93869a04901 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: What ever happened to Ada Date: 1996/11/13 Message-ID: <56d176$247@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 196254724 references: <328848A2.53FC9822@3wis.nl> organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >Noam Kloos said > > "It is just that i was testdriving the Gnat for Windows95 the first time > and simply compiled the hello.adb. Then tried to run the executable on > an old XT 8088 machine and got the message : 'this program cannot be run > in MSDOS mode'. > This seems to me a bit absurd and analog to over bureaucracy." > >Why on earth would you expect a 386 executable to run on an 8088? These >are radically different arhitectures, you might as well have tried running >the executable on a Mac or a Unix machine! It sounds like Noam Kloos might have been happier if his XT had just crashed, rather than getting a sensible error message. At least then he wouldn't have thought the problem was due to "over bureaurocracy". Perhaps this explains the success of C ;-) -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.