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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada
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achrist@easystreet.com wrote:

>There was not only a 640 kb limit, there were some 64 kb limits
>on the size of memory segments in most of the PC software prior to
>1987.

So what?

>  I don't recall ever seeing an Ada product or tool that would
>run on an 8086 or 8088 without special hardware added.

Seems you don't have a clue.

>Were there any?=20

The Meridian Ada83 compiler.


Vinzent.

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