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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: THAAD Study on Ada Viability
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In article <3A3E6626.E1EB9369@psu.edu>,
  "Robert L. Spooner" <rls19@psu.edu> wrote:

> (At least they had GNAT develop a version of Ada 95 for the
> alpha under VMS.)

Note that the ingrediants for GNAT on Vax/VMS were always in
place, so this would have been a practical port, but neither
DEC nor any actual user was willing to fund such an effort,
so it never happened, and is certainly not going to happen now!


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