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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Ada and embedded applications
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>that may not offer much support for them. (Floating point? Context switching
>for tasks? Lots of things get to be a problem on small chips.) C, lacking
  I used to regularly compile and run Ada 83 programs in 16 bit DOS on
a 286, often generating a small memory model (64K) .com file.  But I grant
that's gigantic compared to 512 bytes of RAM.