From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f3f9104dada53163 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) Subject: Re: An interesting quote on Java and C++ Date: 1997/09/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 275766386 Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: houdini.camb.inmet.com References: <342AD83E.2C92@gsg.eds.com> Organization: Intermetrics, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (nospam@gsg.eds.com) wrote: : AFAIK the only processors around that are not two's complement are: : ... : DEC System-20 (still used by CompuServe) This has a 36 bit word, but it is a 2's complement machine. : ... : Univac 1100 line, now Unisys 2200 : All of these have small and declining market shares. I don't know : whether there is an Ada compiler for any of these, but I suspect that : Mr. : Dewar would know. I doubt that there would be an economic incentive to : do : a new compiler for any of them.... There is an Ada 95 compiler for the Unisys 2200, built by RR Software. : ... : Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz : Senior Software SE -- -Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/ Intermetrics, Inc. Burlington, MA USA