From: Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ada on openvms for alpha
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:40:53 -0600
Date: 2014-10-24T11:40:53-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Eaw2w.338174$Ub6.296106@fx20.iad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1728e4b1-2885-4237-a1d9-847d5b3eee23@googlegroups.com>
On 10/24/2014 10:20 AM, brbarkstrom@gmail.com wrote:
> A colleague of mine is running openvms on several old alpha workstations. After
> learning enough about openvms to really use the boxes he wants to run some Ada
> software on them. Unfortunately GNAT no longer supports openvms on alpha.
> Does anyone who owns a license for an ada compiler on openvms/alpha be willing
> to sell their license?
>
> Is so, reply to me and I'll pass along the information to my colleague.
>
Nope -- But this illustrates one of the weaknesses of the Ada market:
If there's only a single free [and up-to-date] implementation, then if
it drops support for a platform that platform is inaccessible to Ada
programming.
Hopefully the situation with GNAT being the /only/ free and modern-spec
implementation will change shortly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-24 17:40 UTC|newest]
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2014-10-24 16:20 Ada on openvms for alpha brbarkstrom
2014-10-24 17:40 ` Shark8 [this message]
2014-10-24 18:47 ` David Botton
2014-10-25 9:23 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-25 11:29 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-26 11:10 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-26 13:02 ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-24 20:19 ` brbarkstrom
2014-10-25 2:31 ` Simon Clubley
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2014-10-25 16:35 Ada on openvms for Alpha Eugen Wintersberger
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