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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0d569080889afd6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Charlie McCutcheon <"cmccutcheon@NOSPAMbegin"@enet.dec.com> Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge. Date: 1999/05/12 Message-ID: <7hc1g7$3p3@zk2nws.zko.dec.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 477013245 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1VEZ2.1515$I51.88140@carnaval.risq.qc.ca> <1999May10.152652.1@eisner> Organization: CTG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Compaq/DEC Ada is still available and supported! Some operating system software (OpenVMS) within Compaq has been written in Ada. Our management is not dictating Ada. They have to work within the limits of what the programmers know, or are willing to program in... ;-) Charlie Keith Thompson wrote: > kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > [...] > > IBM and DEC both developed their own Ada83 compilers, and both their > > products are still available for the two vendor's high-end commercial > > operating systems (although the IBM one now comes from OC Systems). > > DEC developed its own Ada 83 compiler, but IBM's compiler was > originally developed by TeleSoft (which became part of Alsys, which > became part of Thomson Software Products, which became part of Aonix). > > -- > Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com > San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> > Techno-geek. Mouse bigger than phone. Bites heads off virtual chickens.