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From: tmoran@acm.org
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died)
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>> were at least three Ada compilers, but the quality
>> of these may have been questionable, and the
>> price was definitely high by PC standards.
  IIRC, I purchased both BDS-C and later Janus Ada for $100.
The former ran on CP/M and the latter on MSDOS, both on 286s.
The latter was, of course, much more powerful and infinitely
better for debugging.