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From: dirk@feles.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest)
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Subject: Re: Ada advocacy
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In article <adb155d2-cf6d-4db9-8eb2-43471b04e654@googlegroups.com>,
Shark8  <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote:
>I did a little searching and it appears that DEC Ada (on OpenVMS) did
>implement passive tasks; see this:
>http://odl.sysworks.biz/disk$vaxdocsep953/decw$book/d37aaa15.p142.decw$book

FYI, in the late 80s early 90s, the Verdix Ada compiler (VADS) also
provided passive tasks and task types (via a pragma).

Dirk
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