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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Floating point emulation
Date: 1997/03/18
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Date: 1997-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
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<<Andrew Dunstan (amd001@its.maynick.com.au) wrote:
[snip]
: Most universities will not be able to purchase a meaningful support
: contract, I guess (in Australia they are being severely squeezed by a
: neanderthal government, and _every_ dollar has to be watched). I was
: surprised, however, to discover that my old university doesn't appear
: to be using GNAT, but a commercial compiler of moderate quality which
: I suspect (will try to verify) is still an Ada83 version, on Solaris
: platforms.>>

I am not quite sure of the context of this (since the original has not yet
shown up at our site here), but a relevant piece of information is that
Ada Core Technologies does provide inexpensive site licenses for universities
covering unlimited users on multiple platforms, and a number of universities
hold such contracts. For more information, contact sales@gnat.com.

Note that other Ada companies also provide free or inexpensive Ada
products for use in universities. The days when the statement above
was true are past!

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies