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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: DEC Ada 3.4 on Tru64 5.1
Date: 21 Sep 2001 12:58:04 -0500
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In article <GK0uMr.Cs7@news.boeing.com>, nickerson@pundit.ds.boeing.com () writes:
> 
> In article <3BAA98F1.E40E3694@NOSPAMcompaq.com>, 
> Charlie McCutcheon <charlie.mccutcheon@NOSPAMcompaq.com> writes:
> 
> |>No, sorry.  DEC Ada has known problems with Tru64 5.0 and beyond. Major
> |>releases of the operating system tend to break the product.
> 
> my comment would be that you should emulate the OpenVMS commitment
> that OS releases do not break user code - that would include an Ada
> compiler; however given that the AdaRTL is (sort of) part of the OS 
> then it should have been fixed; 

This is certainly not the only area in which the Tru64 Unix business
model diverges from the VMS business model.  Tru64 has formally dropped
support for the original "bird" alpha workstations (DEC 3000-x00) while
VMS still supports them.  VMS has dropped support for some of the early
VAXes -- not intentionally removing support code but declining to test
newer release on hardware from 30 years ago.