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In article <mailman.989147106.4540.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Gautier of my Mollin" <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com> writes:
>>[...]
>>I'm not at all convinced that Microsoft
>>was happy with this situation, and it tried to unify the Windows
>>platforms over and over again.
> 
> Effectively, I guess that such an unification is not easy.
> For certain aspects NT has not evolved as well as the 9x line
> and maybe never do, this is maybe more an human issue than
> a technical one. Back to Compaq: same for "DEC Ada" and "GNAT".

GNAT does not run on VAX.  DEC Ada does.  That is not a human issue.