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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 19:24:36 -0600
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Date: 2012-11-08T19:24:36-06:00
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> Brian Drummond wrote:

> Yes. Bare metal programming on a Z80 is easy. Ditto PIC, AVR, etc etc,
> and of these only the AVR has an Ada toolchain. It may not be mature
> but it is very usable.

That's not quite true, in that there surely exists a Z80 toolchain (early 
Janus/Ada) - it just hasn't been updated or supported in more than a decade 
and it only runs on CP/M. I suppose it might run on some emulator. (Another 
issue is that I don't think the binary exists on anything other than 8" 
floppy disks, which might be hard to read today.)

Not practical, I realize.

                                       Randy.