From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: How do I get this to work??
Date: 1999/01/20
Date: 1999-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7853rt$ic5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36A5DB4E.CC5C88A@spam.innocon.com
In article <36A5DB4E.CC5C88A@spam.innocon.com>,
Jeff Carter <spam.carter.not@spam.innocon.com> wrote:
> FWIW, the first Ada compiler I used was the Rolm compiler
> for the Data General Eclipse in 1984, which claimed to be
> the first validated Ada-83 compiler. This machine
> allocated an unheard-of (in 1984) 4 GB of virtual
> memory for every process. I was told that this compiler's
> Unchecked_Deallocation only set the access variable to
> null without reusing the allocated memory, because no one
> could ever use up 4 GB. This compiler was used only for
> training and I never verified this statement.
A couple of comments. That was indeed a VERY early Ada
compiler (not quite the first, NYU Ada/Ed was validated
before the Rolm compiler, they had certificate number
0002). Well perhaps their publicity department is clearer
than I am on the difference between a compiler and an
interpretor :-)
It is quite believable that this very early version of the
Rolm compiler behaved in the way you mention, but to
extrapolate from that to actual production compilers in
use from the 80's is pretty bogus, so I agree, a lot of
heresay here :-)
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1999-01-04 0:00 How do I get this to work?? Chris Warwick
1999-01-05 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-05 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-01-05 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-06 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-07 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-07 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-10 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-07 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-07 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-06 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-07 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-09 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-01-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-09 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-11 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-16 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-16 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-18 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-20 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-01-20 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-16 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-18 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-16 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-07 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-05 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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