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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: understanding runtime support
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 16:24:15 +0000 (UTC)
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> If you insist on programming the bare metal in Ada ...
> ...
> The Ada run-time did not support tasking or memory deallocation, and could
> not propagate exceptions beyond the frame that raised them.
  RR Software had a full Ada 83 that ran on DOS.  I don't recall DOS as
being all that far from bare metal - it was basically I/O.  And I'd be
curious, Randy, what Windows OS features were needed for, say, Ada 95.