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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada serial Communication packages
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 19:19:35 +0000 (UTC)
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"Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> On a hard-core embedded system, with no operating system, a package
> that dealt with serial ports would do direct port IO. That could be
> done with machine-code insertions in Ada; it would be CPU and serial

It can be done in Ada too! There's not much you can't do in Ada with
address clauses and modular types :-)