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Subject: Re: Filename for packages?
Date: 1998/10/05
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In article <4OKLHRmCBjbX@nedcu4>,
  Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch wrote:
> - The DPMI server is one of the things which suffers the least of subtle
>   differences between DOS/Win3.x, DOS/Win4.0 ("Win95") and Windows NT.
>   No surprise that people are interested in shipping DLL-free 32-bit
>   programs compiled with GNAT/DOS in order to run under Windows *.* .
>   Of course it doesn't concern students, so I stop here...


Indeed, we certainly expected an interest in the DOS version precisely because
of this issue (generating applications that can run across Win 3.1/DOS, Win95,
and NT) and that is indeed why we maintained and supported the DOS version
for a while, but in fact no such interest every materialized. Not even one
customer expressed interest in the DOS version for this purpose, which is
why support was dropped. The only interest that was ever shown was for
students running old machines.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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