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: 103376,977301fa0e3c10ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English) Subject: Re: Three cheers for free CD-ROMS! Date: 1997/10/30 Message-ID: <639q3n$gbc@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 285964236 References: <637e34$5u6@sun04.tfh-berlin.de> Organization: University of Brighton Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Debora Weber-Wulff (weberwu@compute.tfh-berlin.de) wrote: : Now that's the way to promote a language! We are teaching Ada in : all three computer-related degree programs as the first language. : This semester we have more than 160 students beginning their : studies. : A colleague discovered that the company CCI in Meppen, Germany would : send free copies of the Ada Tour 2.0 i (including the Lovelace : tutorial, a collection of compilers and a pile of documentation) : to anyone who asked. So we asked, and we promptly found big boxes : of CDs waiting for us in the departmental offices. You may also be interested in a CD produced by myself at Brighton. It's not free, since we have to cover production costs, but it's as cheap as I could make it (UKP 3.00 a copy, falling in stages to 1.20 a copy in quantities of 1000). We have however managed to give away 1500 copies to educational institutions thanks to sponsorship from GEC-Marconi and Pavilion Internet. The CD is a complete website-on-a-CD, based on a preinstalled copy of Netscape Navigator. It includes GNAT 3.07 for DOS, 3.09 for 95/NT (the CD was produced before 3.10 came out :-( ), 3.09 for Linux (as well as a complete copy of Linux to go with it), ASIS, various libraries and development tools, Lovelace, the RM95, Rationale, Style Guide and FAQs. It also includes compilers, tutorials and documentation for about 20 other languages, a copy of the Free Online Dictionary of Computing with over 10000 entries, and lots more. The whole thing (all 650M of it) is freely available on the web at http://burks.bton.ac.uk -- have a look! ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------