Ada on Unix

[emery@MBUNIX.MITRE.ORG (Emery)]

> voder!pyramid!infmx!bgolden@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Bernard Golden) writes: 

>Keith Shillington (I think that's the right last name) from Telesoft called
>me and we had a very good discussion regarding ADA and its capabilities
>on UNIX.  It appears that no capabilities of ADA are sacrificed by running
>on UNIX, although UNIX itself provides some facilities (e.g., message queues)
>that might make some language features not so important.

Does this mean that Telesoft supports non-blocking IO from multiple
tasks doing IO in a single Unix process?  (i.e.  if one task calls
text_io.put_line, will other tasks in the same program/process still run?)

If so, I'd be very interested in hearing how that works.  We've
discussed this at great detail in the POSIX-Ada binding WG.

				dave emery
				emery@aries.mitre.org