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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3b4d948be25ba8c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: ez2load helping Ada Date: 1996/07/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168189884 references: <009A53B0E71F30C3.8AB2@smcsr3.smcs.se.baesema.co.uk> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Chris said " I have been spending some time handing out copies of the EZ2LOAD package assembled by Prof Mike Feldman and co. I just want to say that, now this version includes tasking, it is really starting to attract serious attention. Ironically this GNAT port runnning on perhaps the worst operating of all the ones it is ported to, is one of the most important. Important that is for helping the spread of Ada into grass-roots/home computing. It gives Ada a chance to win the hearts and minds of the young people who will be building the big systems in the 21st century." Actually I think the really important version of GNAT will be the WIndows/95 version, since after all these days even the cheapest computer you can buy comes with Win95 preinstalled. So now what we need is a really slick installation package for the Win95 version using a standard Win95 Wizard, and then hopefully we can incorporate some of the nice environment stuff from EZ2LOAD. (This is one of the reasons I am personally switching to Ada 95). The DOS version will of course continue to have some considerable use on obsolete machines, which will take a while to die out, although I think that will happen faster than people think. The other day I bought a brand new NEC machine with a 486 and 8 megs of memory and a 2X CD ROM and a 170 meg hard drive for under $400. That machine would be quite fine for running student programs under Win95 using GNAT.