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> OK.  The post to which I replied read "In the early days pf PCs".
> The early days of PC's (to me) were the period 1981-1985, when the 
> first-generation 8088 was the typical machine.  Was Meridian running
> on 8088 PC's at that time?  Could it both raise and handle interrupts?
> Load registers?  Call the BIOS?  Address the DOS low memory?  Compile
> to object code that other languages could use without a large run-time
> library (remember it took about 35kb to talk to the mouse under DOS,
> so many programs didn't bother to include any mouse support).  TSR?

I can not remember the exact year, but there was a
subset of Ada available for my Z80 machine (64 K RAM)
at one time.  Don't know how big a subset or what they
left out.  Seems like it was Janus or RR but I'm not sure.
Had adverts in Byte magazine.