From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Is Ada on VAX/VMS Ada 95
Date: 27 Jun 2006 09:59:54 -0500
Date: 2006-06-27T09:59:54-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5VSlJvB8SZ3t@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1151412502.125088.213180@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com
In article <1151412502.125088.213180@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>, "Chris L" <clusardi2k@aol.com> writes:
>
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> If you want an Ada 95 implementation on the VMS operating system,
>> use GNAT Ada 95 for Alpha VMS. It has many of the VMS-specific
>> capabilities of the original VAX Ada.
>
> I will not be on the VAX for a few months. Is the GNAT Ada 95 compiler
> already on the VAX or do I have to buy and install it?
The GNAT Ada 95 is not available for VAX at all.
It is available for Alpha VMS, which runs on the Alpha hardware.
That said, some shops imprecisely refer to any machine running the
VMS operating system as being a "VAX". I figure they are not the
type of shops to choose strongly typed languages :-)
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2006-06-26 19:36 ` Is Ada on VAX/VMS Ada 95 Larry Kilgallen
2006-06-27 2:12 ` Keith Thompson
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2006-06-27 14:59 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2006-06-27 16:57 ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-27 16:51 ` Martin Krischik
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