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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6192a34d0c9ffe5b X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.theremailer.net!frell.theremailer.net!anonymous From: Fritz Wuehler Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above. It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software. Please report problems or inappropriate use to the remailer administrator at . Identifying the real sender is technically impossible. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Tutor Web Site Shutting Down References: Message-ID: <6b85296dc986c852005feb4188eda9a0@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> Precedence: anon Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 10:36:09 +0200 Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@frell.theremailer.net Organization: Frell Anonymous Remailer Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19180 Date: 2011-05-07T10:36:09+02:00 List-Id: > But a better question is why would you want to use a new compiler? Is there > anything inportant that you can do in DOS that you can't do in a Windows > console program or a standard Linux program? Yes, since DOS runs on very low spec hardware with almost no RAM, if you can compile to that environment from Ada you can make very nice small machines for different purposes- embedded, etc. And Ada is SO much better than the typical languages found in DOS it's a shame not to have it available. [I didn't read the OP since google groups are filtered upstream from me] > I knew there was a reason that we were really careful about following the > OS rules back in the day...) Excellent! Now if the OS itself would only follow the rules we would be ok! ;-)