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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a4656a5edc0dab4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications? References: <409F69CB.8020604@noplace.com> <40A218DD.9090903@noplace.com> <40A36368.7050104@noplace.com> <40A8AF7C.5000608@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 01:09:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.1.65 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1084842572 63.184.1.65 (Mon, 17 May 2004 18:09:32 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:09:32 PDT Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:654 Date: 2004-05-18T01:09:32+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > Ada's only chance for further expansion is in various kinds of embedded > systems (bigger ones; Ada isn't really suited for single-board computers). I've long thought there should be an embedded board with something like 32 processors, about as good as an 80387 w/FPU, each with its own hunk of memory, and an Ada compiler that targets the board that distributes tasks across processors. Inexpensive, true parallelism should be a big advantage for embedded systems. Someday, when I win the lottery ... -- Jeff Carter "I blow my nose on you." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 03