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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Omission in the Ada Standard
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:05:11 +0200
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Jeff C, wrote:

>Second...Code that accesses the ports directly is now obsolete (mostly)
>since it is not legal under NT, 2000, XP [...]

I beg to differ. Especially because Ada is well suited for embedded
systems, where port accesses to address external devices are quite
usual.


Vinzent.