From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Some GNAT history (was Re: SGI GNAT Question? (Long))
Date: 1999/03/09
Date: 1999-03-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c3kt0$lk4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7c3dpp$f1g$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7c3dpp$f1g$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> 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!
The academic compiler contract was completely separate from
GNAT except that one bid involved GNAT (from Mike), and
indeed there was an expectation early on that Metroworks
might bid based on GNAT, but Metroworks got cold feet over
GPL issues [they did not want to open source their stuff]
(as best I understand what happened).
There were at least two other bids, and the contract (for
a student compiler for the PC and for the Mac) went to
Intermetrics/Aonix, and is the basis for the current Object
Ada product on the PC.
To give a bit more perspective, we were getting pretty loud
signals that AJPO did not want to put any more government
money into GNAT at that point (there appeared to be
continuing concern with competition with other vendors).
I even had a discussion with one high up official (who I
will not name) in AJPO who got very worried that GNAT might
be validated, and asked me how this could be prevented (!)
> Out of curiosity, were there any other "bids" on the gnat
> contract, or was it just written with NYU in mind?
There were no other bids, and I think it may have been
sole-sourced -- note that we were in a unique position
since this was part of the gcc system, and NYU was the
official maintainer of gcc. Indeed without this
relationship the initial development of GNAT would have
been much more difficult, perhaps impossible.
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-02 0:00 SGI GNAT Question? (Long) Paul Colvert
1999-03-02 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Paul Colvert
1999-03-03 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-04 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-05 0:00 ` GNAT Field Test scope (was SGI GNAT Question) Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-05 0:00 ` SGI GNAT Question? (Long) dennison
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` root
1999-03-07 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` root
1999-03-07 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-08 0:00 ` root
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Some GNAT history (was Re: SGI GNAT Question? (Long)) dewar
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-09 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-09 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1999-03-11 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-09 0:00 ` SGI GNAT Question? (Long) dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-07 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-03-02 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-03-02 0:00 ` GNAT discussions should be here as well kvisko
1999-03-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
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