From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce6f6f23c4e880ad X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-24 00:38:16 PST From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Multitasking theory question Organization: RMIT References: <10xR8.245$Gc5.62814264@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.2 (PPC Mac OS X) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:33:47 +1000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: dale2.cs.rmit.edu.au X-Trace: itsawnews.its.rmit.edu.au 1024904171 dale2.cs.rmit.edu.au (24 Jun 2002 17:36:11 +1000) Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newshub1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!vrn.edu.au!131.170.8.40.MISMATCH!itsawnews.its.rmit.edu.au!dale Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26639 Date: 2002-06-24T17:33:47+10:00 List-Id: In article , "AG" wrote: > Not sure about that one. The only Ada compiler on DOS that > I ever saw was a [very] old Meridian version. Since it was limited > [all the usual disclaimers here] to just a few tasks if I remember > correctly, and that DOS probably wasn't *the* problem, well... > It looks like it wasn't the question of what does OS support - if > you can do 15 tasks you can as wel do 255 at least :) The Meridian Ada compiler was quite a nice compiler (i've since thrown out my documentation) but as far as I know there was no restriction on the number of tasks (at least not down to the level of "a few"). dale