From: fischer@hermix.UUCP (Herm Fischer)
Subject: Microsoft OS/2 -- Ideal for Ada
Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 20:06:44 EDT [thread overview]
Date: Fri Jun 12 20:06:44 1987
Message-ID: <8706130340.AA00283@rand-unix.arpa> (raw)
Microsoft OS/2 (the replacement for MS-DOS for 286 machines) seems to have
everything which Ada's tasking management needs, and Unix doesn't provide.
Unlike the balky fork concept of UNIX, OS/2 treats parallel executions
within a process as threads, which look at first glance as if they were
designed with Ada rendezvous in mind; the threads can share the same
local data group, which is the opposite of UNIX fork semantics.
Given the apparent compatibility of Ada with OS/2, I'd like to see a discussion
of compiler vendor plans for supporting OS/2...
(The only published public reference on OS/2 multiprocessing which I have
seen at newstands is in the May 1987 Microsoft Systems Journal, pg 29 ff.)
Herm Fischer
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1987-06-13 0:06 Herm Fischer [this message]
1987-06-15 11:40 ` Microsoft OS/2 -- Ideal for Ada martillo
1987-06-16 12:50 ` Robert Firth
1987-06-16 22:24 ` martillo
1987-06-17 4:14 ` Mark I. Himelstein
1987-06-17 22:13 ` Yakim Martillo
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1987-06-17 16:28 "VAXR::IVANOVIC"
1987-06-19 11:33 ` martillo
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