Re: Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM?

["Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com>]

"Tucker Taft" <stt@averstar.com> wrote in message
news:3A7F032B.380BD35D@averstar.com...
> Robert Dewar wrote:
<snip>
> > The i432 was a very odd design, which was certainly not done
> > with Ada in mind (not clear *what* was in mind, this chip was
> > doomed to fail, since it was impossible to implement
> > efficiently). ...
> > Nothing could have rescued it in my opinion. The design had the
> > appearence of being done by high level language folks with no
> > view of what could be implemented efficiently. There was really
> > nothing specifically Ada about the design.
>
> I thought the 432 was an attempt to implement many of the
> ideas of the capability-based Hydra operating system in hardware.

That's what Elliott Organick's book* indicates (pg. 12).

We had the pleasure of experimenting/exploring/playing with one of them,
back in the very early 1980's.  An interesting machine with some unusual Ada
extensions, but I would not have wanted to do serious development with it.

* E. Organick, A Programmer's View of the Intel 432 System, Aloha, Oregon:
Intel Corporation, 1983.