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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Some GNAT history (was Re: SGI GNAT Question? (Long))
Date: 1999/03/09
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In article <7c2c11$ila$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> Incidentally a bit of history may provide useful
> perspective here. I know that many readers are fully

> So things forged ahead. The validation did not really
> matter, although it is ironic that when it came to awarding
> the contract for the academic compiler, the main reason
> that Mike Feldman's proposal for a GNAT based solution was
> turned down was the lack of validation! He had a letter of

I'm glad you cleared that up. I had heard talk of that a few years back, but
I had gathered the "acedemic compiler" contract was the contract that Gnat
was developed under, not some separate contract that came along later, and
that Mike had lost with a bid based on Ada-Ed. Boy was I confused!

Out of curiosity, were there any other "bids" on the gnat contract, or was
it just written with NYU in mind?

T.E.D.

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