From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:12:59 -0000
Date: 2001-01-30T21:12:59+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <957b5d$fji6p$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> (raw)
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"David Starner" <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote in message
news:94vdt9$a2g1@news.cis.okstate.edu...
> ...
> * The Ada chip is dead, and you'd lose a lot of flexibility designing
> around it. ("Ada chip" = "the CPU of the computers Rational designed
> for running Ada". My knowledge of this is limited, so feel free to
> correct me.)
I believe the original 'Ada chip' (as such) was the Intel 432, many moons
ago (a 16-bit single backplane multiprocessor architecture). Sadly, it was
cancelled due to lack of intere$t*.
(Anyway, you don't need an Ada-specific CPU, you only need an Ada-specific
OS ;-)
--
Nick Roberts
http://www.AdaOS.org
*Actually, due to Intel deciding to concentrate all its powers on the then
new and astonishing iAPX 386.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-30 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-27 16:47 Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM? chris.danx
2001-01-27 21:17 ` David Starner
2001-01-28 8:44 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-29 23:40 ` Ronald Cole
2001-01-30 1:27 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-30 8:28 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-30 19:29 ` Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM? ms .net vm Singlespeeder
2001-02-01 0:01 ` Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM? Ronald Cole
2001-02-01 7:32 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-02 17:33 ` Ray Blaak
2001-02-01 11:57 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-02-01 17:35 ` Ray Blaak
2001-02-01 16:19 ` joswig
2001-01-30 21:12 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2001-02-02 0:19 ` Larry J. Elmore
2001-02-02 3:41 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-03 3:49 ` Larry J. Elmore
2001-02-05 19:46 ` Tucker Taft
2001-02-05 20:31 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-05 20:58 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-27 22:31 ` gdemont
2001-01-30 2:41 ` Julian Morrison
2001-01-30 7:08 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-01-30 12:55 ` John English
2001-01-31 21:05 ` chris.danx
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