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I recently needed to write some utilities to run under 16 bit MSDOS (for 
data recovery of a badly damaged W2K NTFS disk), so I dug out an antique 
  PC-AT class computer and used its Ada 83 compiler.
   I was surprised by the importance of some of the "little changes" in 
Ada 95 vs 83 like declaration order requirements, mixing named and 
"others" in aggregate assignments, limited 'image, and, of course, "use 
type".