Re: Early availability of cheap Ada compilers (Was: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented)

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Simon Clubley" <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote in 
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> I knew about Ada before that, but didn't know about any low cost compilers
> until I saw the Grey Matter product lists. I remember the advertising
> material been printed on coloured (maybe green) paper detailing the
> product.
>
> I cannot remember if the Janus/Ada advertising material originated from
> Grey Matter or if Randy's company originally created it and it was
> re-distributed by Grey Matter.

Possibly both. We used green colored brochures back in the 1980s for a 
while, but I think we'd gotten rid of them in favor of a brighter design by 
1993. But I honestly only remember the "Ada 94" (which had to be reprinted 
as "Ada 95") brochures, the last ones we had printed in quanity. By 1997, we 
did everything on the web. (I think I have collection of those old brochures 
somewhere, but I no longer remember where... ;-)

                                           Randy.