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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2565a93869a04901 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: What ever happened to Ada Date: 1996/11/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 196185202 references: <328848A2.53FC9822@3wis.nl> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Noam Kloos said "It is just that i was testdriving the Gnat for Windows95 the first time and simply compiled the hello.adb. Then tried to run the executable on an old XT 8088 machine and got the message : 'this program cannot be run in MSDOS mode'. This seems to me a bit absurd and analog to over bureaucracy." Why on earth would you expect a 386 executable to run on an 8088? These are radically different arhitectures, you might as well have tried running the executable on a Mac or a Unix machine! It would certainly be possible to make a version of GNAT that generatd executables for an 8088. It just has not been done. If someone is interested and has a commercial requirement for such a product, it might well get done, but to think that it is absurd that 386 executables do not run on an 8088 is very curious! If you are expecting someone to present you with a free Ada 95 compiler that runs on an 8088, I don't think it will happen. There simply is not enough interest (we have seen ZERO interest in such a product) for someone to invest resources in such a project. The advice that you get a 386 represents a suggestion that may be much less expensive for you than paying for an 8088 compiler to be developed :-)