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: 103376,3b4d948be25ba8c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: root@mihalis.demon.co.uk (root) Subject: Re: ez2load helping Ada Date: 1996/07/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170921850 x-nntp-posting-host: baesema5.demon.co.uk sender: root@mihalis.demon.co.uk references: <009A53B0E71F30C3.8AB2@smcsr3.smcs.se.baesema.co.uk> organization: At home. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: Just so my comments on Win95 are not taken wrong, I fully agree that the DOS port is extremely important for GNAT and Ada 95 right now, and the work on EZ2LOAD and its environment has been an important contribution. Just so people know, Mike is doing this work entirely on a volunteer basis (he had proposed this work under the educational compiler contract, but as you know this contract was awarded to Intermetrics). Mike managed to scrimp up the resources to bat on anyway with assembling the EZ2LOAD package, and it's remarkable what has been achieved with minimal resources. I think we can all second that. I feel I unfortunately minimized the fantastic technology underpinning the package (first of all GNAT, now with tasking, secondly DJGPP making DOS usable). However I am glad that we can all agree that the packaging effort itself is very valuable. I've now got perhaps 25 colleagues using it or showing interest to some degree and these are people working on the UK RN Submarine Command System (SMCS), the UK RN Type 23 Frigate Command System (SSCS) and our bid for the European Common Next Generation Frigate (CNGF) - serious Ada users almost to a man (why pretend and say person :-) The DJGPP folks seem to have done a remarkable job of making DOS look like a real operating system :-) Well almost. It's about as convincing as Windows95. Sorry couldn't resist. This is hitting the web via homebrew Linux (Company account, my phone bill :) Greetings to all! Chris