Re: ez2load helping Ada

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Just so my comments on Win95 are not taken wrong, I fully agree that the
DOS port is extremely important for GNAT and Ada 95 right now, and
the work on EZ2LOAD and its environment has been an important
contribution. Just so people know, Mike is doing this work entirely
on a volunteer basis (he had proposed this work under the educational
compiler contract, but as you know this contract was awarded to
Intermetrics). Mike managed to scrimp up the resources to bat on
anyway with assembling the EZ2LOAD package, and it's remarkable what
has been achieved with minimal resources.

By the way, now that tasking is fully operational in the DOS versoin,
this port joins the ranks of full DOS ports, and ACT is now offering
support on the DOS version. Contact support@gnat.com for details. 

One thing incidentally about the DOS port is that Mike's new packaging
for EZ2LOAD is a clean add on, so you can use the DOS port with or 
without this environment as you please. For example, experienced users
may prefer to use Emacs on DOS with GNAT, and then they will find an
environment that is pretty similar to what they would expect from a Unix
system (single threaded, of course, but still, in terms of command
structure and look and feel, *very* similar).

The DJGPP folks seem to have done a remarkable job of making DOS
look like a real operating system :-)