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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry
Date: 1996/11/11
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Date: 1996-11-11T00:00:00+00:00
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James said

">We didn't find any Ada compiler vendors in the 1986-88 era who
>supported preemptive scheduling.  And they all talked to us,
>because we were potentially a huge customer.  Do you know any?"


I guess he did not look very hard, many Ada compilers supported preemptive
scheduling in this time period. I do know of one or two exceptions, but
they were definitely expceptions. Perhaps it is just rusty memory :-)