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-Thread: 103376,913ffb3586d7a026 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is the best method for transmitting objects/tagged records? Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: Lf0Nl3CcQzx+ocHx9cmuGg.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19725 Date: 2011-06-09T23:42:55+00:00 List-Id: >> Ada doesn't out of the box support any sort of hetrogeneous partitioning >Clarification: I'm talking about Annex E distributed system partitions here, A (slow) PCS could consist of a flash drive carried between machines. You wouldn't expect a binary dump of a Windows Ada pixel array to be directly readable as such on a DVD player. Ditto if the PCS uses fast ethernet. You need to write your own 'Input/'Output to intercovert with some common data format.