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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,630c12e823d1bdf4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-03 01:33:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.net.uni-c.dk!uninett.no!dax.net!juliett.dax.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Compiler Pricing (was Re: Hijacking a Thread was RE: New Ada compiler for .NET) References: <1040653133.613605@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3e18f3f3_1@news.tm.net.my> <6KwmrO7CZtnj@eisner.encompasserve.org> <1041910244.361888@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3E1E5604.5030209@nospam.adrianhoe.com> <3E1EA349.6B97C328@adaworks.com> <3E1F4B6D.A8D5172F@adaworks.com> <49BFB7592CBCCE76.BF5F1FAC531DF3EC.585B6F261FE1D006@lp.airnews.net> <3E259DAD.7B21B061@adaworks.com> From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Message-ID: <7v65s1iu91.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 09:33:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.216.12.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tele2.no X-Trace: juliett.dax.net 1044264795 193.216.12.150 (Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:33:15 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:33:15 MET Organization: Tele2 Norway AS Public Access Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33713 Date: 2003-02-03T09:33:15+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle writes: > Marin David Condic wrote: > > > Of course, there is nothing to stop one from using Ada on a commercial > > RTOS - except for possibly finding a compiler that targets the board & the > > RTOS - and getting it at a reasonable price - and feeling comfortable that > > it will actually work without too many serious bugs > > I remember the Ada project at Xerox where the team built the embedded > system for a copier using Ada, and did not need to buy a separate RTOS. > They used the one supplied by the Ada compiler publisher. It was a > highly successful project and the team, along with its manager, realized > that Ada was a significant improvement over the way they had built > such systems before. The Xerox copier in the previous company I worked ran Linux.... -- Ole-Hj. Kristensen ****************************************************************************** * You cannot consistently believe this sentence. ******************************************************************************