Re: Compiling AFLEX 1.4a with Dec Ada 83 3.5-20 on Open VMS 7.1

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <9cpd6o$kgg$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:
> O.K. Compaq bought DEC - thus inheriting the DEC Ada83 compiler. DEC had
> contracted at some point with ACT to have GNAT ported to their hardware and
> basically used this as their upgrade path from Ada83. (Hence GNAT was the
> "official" DEC compiler at some juncture.) Did Compaq take the DEC Ada83
> compiler and start upgrading it? If so, for what reason? (Seeing as how they
> had Ada95 available.) Or is this some completely unrelated product? If it
> doesn't target VMS, it doesn't seem to have much relevance to the original
> problem, so I'm rather guessing that it must be derived from the original
> DEC compiler.

Compaq Ada = DEC Ada
DEC Ada = VAX Ada (except that it also does Alpha)

Those are official Compaq (nee DEC) products, available for license today.
They implement Ada83.

GNAT is officially recommended on VMS (Alpha only) by Compaq (nee DEC) for
those who want Ada95.  It is not sold by Compaq, but they would be happy to
sell you one or more machines to run it on :-)

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> "Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam> wrote in message
> news:u38o8Pk66$OW@eisner.encompasserve.org...
>> He ascribed the "extensions for Ada 95" to "Compaq Ada".  That is the
>> Ada83 implementation (nee DEC Ada (nee VAX Ada)) and has nothing to
>> do with GNAT on Alpha VMS.
>>
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