Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?

["Jeff C," <jcreem@yahoo.com>]

"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
news:40A9FBD4.40707@noplace.com...

> I don't know who ACT's customers are, but the last time I checked they
> were not selling a compiler that is aimed at "embedded" systems. They
> market a compiler that mostly wants to run on top of Unix and isn't
> targeted to popular embedded processors. Perhaps it *can* be utilized in
> some embedded/realtime applications, but I don't think they go out of
> their way to try to make a kit to do so. (Perhaps they'd like to bid on
> the next engine control I'll be working on?) So I'm guessing that there
> must be *some* usage of Ada in areas that are not what most people would
> call "embedded".
>


I dont disagree with your initial points (deleted) but the stuff above is
not entirely correct.

ACT certainly does "make a kit" to be used for embedded systems.
They are the "preferred" vendor for vxWorks (Real-time embedded OS)
they have or had a product for LynxOS (Real-time embdded though admittedly
unix like OS)
They will support (for a fee) proprietary kernels and no executive type
installs.

They target PowerPC which is a popular embedded computer...Perhaps not in
your world...

I have heard rumors of ARM support at various times (although again you are
correct they dont market it for ARM)

As for the "Perhaps they'd like to bid on  the next engine control I'll be
working on?"

I would say...perhaps your right..