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: f849b,857262ad7d0ad537 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c2f4cdd9ccfb8ede X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use? Date: 1999/06/10 Message-ID: <6GU73.1093$Pc2.91077@typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 488031618 References: <7jomks$l7q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net 929044226 207.214.215.109 (Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:50:26 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:50:26 PDT Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > > I have a set of floppies here labeled "Janus/Ada 9X 386 Extender > > Ver 3.0.3" with a "most recent file" date in March 1993. I was > > using it for commercial (ie not toy, not research, not defense) work. > > How could you possibly use a non-qualified Ada complier for work? I > thought that was a strict No-No. I chose the compiler, and saw no reason to stick to a validated Ada 83 compiler for this project. It was in what's now called e-commerce and needed the reliability of an Ada program to avoid very expensive errors, but nobody's life actually depended on it (discounting the possibility of self-defenestration).