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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Distributed Computing in Ada
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Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> Well, not exactly the "original" design -- Annex E was not present in
> Ada 83, and was added in Ada 95.

Ada 83 had support for distribution. Tasks may run on separate processors; these 
processors need not all be part of the same computer. There was no 
language-defined way to specify which tasks run on which processors, but that's 
true with Annex E, too.

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