From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic)
Date: 1996/10/17
Date: 1996-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Oct17172950@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mheaney-ya023180000610961022420001@news.ni.net
In article <544aj2$c6p@felix.seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
> In article <JSA.96Oct14175838@alexandria>,
> Jon S Anthony <jsa@alexandria> wrote:
>[...]
> >And that is just fine. I don't see where the contract was: "Ada on
> >the Mac".
>
> Actually, it was quite clear in the RFP that the MacOS (on PPC) was to
> be supported by the Academic Ada compiler. As I recall, the contract
> award mentioned it as well. The article in the Fall 1995 AdaIC News
> mentioned Intel and PowerPC CPU's but did not list operating
> systems.
>
> Subsequently, the contract was modified to eliminate the Mac.
> So it's not just "fine" - after the fact, the contractor asked for,
> and received, a contract mod from the government. This was
> discussed on this group before.
Well, OK, you have me. I appears I am just plain wrong. I really
don't know the contract specifics and thought it was simply requiring
a readily accessible and cheap "Academic Ada Compiler".
OTOH, if the mod was OK'd by the customer, how is this still not
"fine" (well, other than it goofs up the Mac situation).
> >It's either a correct perception or it is not. If it is, then I
> >suppose things will never change. If not, then it would seem that
> >this is indeed an opportunity for a new company which would take the
> >AdaMagic front end and someone elses backend and add the value added
> >to glue them together in a nice Mac environment.
>
> I could not agree more. Perhaps, if the MachTen CodeBuilder release
> is a big seller and it's apparent that many people are buying it
> mostly for GNAT, that will be the necessary impetus. Dunno...
Check
/Jon
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Jon Anthony
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-27 0:00 Ada to byte-code compiler works as advertised Mike Stark
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Vince Del Vecchio
1996-10-03 0:00 ` New version of AppletMagic (was Re: Ada to byte-code compiler ...) Vince Del Vecchio
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Ada on the Mac (was: AppletMagic stuff) Michael Feldman
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Hosting Ada on Mac (Was: Ada on the Mac) Laurent Gasser
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic) Laurent Gasser
1996-10-08 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Laurent Gasser
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Stan Shebs
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-10 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-17 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-17 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Steve Wall
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Tom Halliley
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Jim Easterbrook
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Anita Holmgren
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Tom Halliley
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` New version of AppletMagic (was Re: Ada to byte-code compiler Dr Paul Gorman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Ada on the Mac (was: AppletMagic stuff) Stan Shebs
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