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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: ON Topic: Ada for CP/M
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in message news:<ad0b0g$mso$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...

> Considering you can do a full implementation of Ada for a machine that has
> *no* operating system whatsoever, that isn't exactly a bold and daring
> claim. :-)

You miss the point. Of course CP/M is perectly adequate to support Ada
from a functional view, but typical CP/M machines have VERY little memory,
typically not more than 64K bytes, and often less, and it is a little
daring to say you can fit a full Ada run-time in that small a space :-)