From: CONTR47@NOSC-TECR.ARPA
Subject: Thoughts on real-time Ada
Date: 23 Jan 88 10:53:13 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8801231153.AA09368@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
Since someone quoted documents regarding the original intent
of Ada for real-time I feel compelled to say what I remember.
On my first Ada project (which was a real-time system using
VAXes) I followed with great interest the Army/Softech planned
implementation order for target computers. I remember that
they were targetting a "bare-VAX", no VMS etc. Then things
seemed to turn to yogurt over the following years and they
implemented under VMS. Pity they didn't accomplish the original
mission. If they had we would today have a public domain
compiler and ARTE for a bare VAX and STARS etc. could
be building system pieces to go with it. I could be improving
the ARTE instead of spending taxpayer's money to "get around"
vendor's supplied ARTEs. Oh well, here in Florida there is
a saying "It is hard to remember that your original
mission was to drain the swamp when you up to your
waist in alligators".
regards, sam harbaugh
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