* GNAT on Mac
@ 1995-03-21 5:31 Doug Smith
1995-03-21 12:02 ` Laurent Gasser
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From: Doug Smith @ 1995-03-21 5:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
For you Macintosh owners who might think of using some emulation software
to run GNAT, let me share a little information:
Insignia Solutions sells a DOS/Windows emulator for Macs/Performas/Power Macs.
Although not stated on the box (I couldn't find it), this is an emulation of
the 80286 instruction set...bzzzzzzzt ... not for GNAT you don't!
A discussion with Insignia tech support revealed that they will be releasing
an 80486 emulator for the Power Macs "real soon now" (April-June).
I'm not sure how practical this really is for writing code or even just playing
with GNAT on you Power Mac. I paid $169 for SoftWindows (and will be returning
it for a refund within the 30 day limit). If someone who owns a Power Mac can
invest the money when the 486 emulator comes out, I would like to know if the
GNAT compiler could be run on the SoftWindows' product (and how well).
Doug Smith
dsmith@clark.net
Doug Smith
dsmith@clark.net
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* Re: GNAT on Mac
1995-03-21 5:31 GNAT on Mac Doug Smith
@ 1995-03-21 12:02 ` Laurent Gasser
1995-03-21 13:48 ` Theodore Dennison
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From: Laurent Gasser @ 1995-03-21 12:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <dsmith-2103950031170001@dsmith-ppp.clark.net>, dsmith@clark.net (Doug Smith) writes:
|> For you Macintosh owners who might think of using some emulation software
|> to run GNAT, let me share a little information:
|>
|> Insignia Solutions sells a DOS/Windows emulator for Macs/Performas/Power Macs.
|> Although not stated on the box (I couldn't find it), this is an emulation of
|> the 80286 instruction set...bzzzzzzzt ... not for GNAT you don't!
|>
|> A discussion with Insignia tech support revealed that they will be releasing
|> an 80486 emulator for the Power Macs "real soon now" (April-June).
|>
|> I'm not sure how practical this really is for writing code or even just playing
|> with GNAT on you Power Mac. I paid $169 for SoftWindows (and will be returning
|> it for a refund within the 30 day limit). If someone who owns a Power Mac can
|> invest the money when the 486 emulator comes out, I would like to know if the
|> GNAT compiler could be run on the SoftWindows' product (and how well).
|>
|> Doug Smith
|> dsmith@clark.net
|>
|> Doug Smith
|> dsmith@clark.net
For a price similar to the emulator I got the Houdini card (a 486 at
66MHz on PowerMac 6100/66). It is a perfectly compatible DOS machine
which can run GNAT: I have it running all the examples. It is
available since yesterday at least ;-)
--
Laurent Gasser (gasser@dma.epfl.ch)
Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions.
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* Re: GNAT on Mac
1995-03-21 5:31 GNAT on Mac Doug Smith
1995-03-21 12:02 ` Laurent Gasser
@ 1995-03-21 13:48 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-22 3:47 ` Vladimir Vukicevic
1995-03-22 13:51 ` Robert Dewar
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From: Theodore Dennison @ 1995-03-21 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dsmith
Doug Smith <dsmith@clark.net> wrote:
> For you Macintosh owners who might think of using some emulation software
> to run GNAT, let me share a little information:
>
..
> A discussion with Insignia tech support revealed that they will be releasing
> an 80486 emulator for the Power Macs "real soon now" (April-June).
>
I know this is way, WAY off topic, but how fast are these 486 emulations? Do
they think it will be faster or slower than a real 486?
T.E.D.
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* Re: GNAT on Mac
1995-03-21 5:31 GNAT on Mac Doug Smith
1995-03-21 12:02 ` Laurent Gasser
1995-03-21 13:48 ` Theodore Dennison
@ 1995-03-22 3:47 ` Vladimir Vukicevic
1995-03-22 13:51 ` Robert Dewar
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From: Vladimir Vukicevic @ 1995-03-22 3:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
I think that the original idea of porting gnat to the Mac was to have
a freely available Ada compiler runing natively on the Mac. While
using SoftPC or SoftWindows is a possibility, it wouldn't enable you
to make any macintosh software, or take advantage of the macintosh's
interface. And, after all, who wants to use DOS or Windows?
- Vladimir
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* Re: GNAT on Mac
1995-03-21 5:31 GNAT on Mac Doug Smith
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1995-03-22 3:47 ` Vladimir Vukicevic
@ 1995-03-22 13:51 ` Robert Dewar
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From: Robert Dewar @ 1995-03-22 13:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
One additional problem here (trying to run GNAT in emulation mode) is
that Windows is of course a 16-bit environment basically. So if the
product emulates Windows in a 486 environment, it is basically emulating
16-bit stuff anyway. Presumably it can support the kind of 32-bit
extender technology that DJGPP uses, but one can't be sure of this
without trying it out.
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* GNAT on Mac
@ 2014-10-18 19:01 Luke A. Guest
2014-10-19 0:56 ` David Botton
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From: Luke A. Guest @ 2014-10-18 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
Just wondering, for when I get to this point, is there integration into
Xcode? I know there is no public sdk for plugging into Xcode, but I'm
wondering if there is any as I saw in another thread someone mentioned
Xcode in the same sentence as GNAT.
Luke
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