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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Win32Ada
Date: 1998/11/15
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In article <72mlq3$9nd$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes:

> ALS cost the government a LOT of money, something of the
> order of 15-20 times the cost of GNAT. Interestingly there
> was much less hue and cry from the other vendors, I think
> simply because ALS was seen as a technical failure, and was
> never successful in the market place. Part of the reason
> for some of the vendors strongly opposing the GNAT project
> was their prediction (accurate we believe :-) that GNAT
> would be of sufficient quality to seriously compete with
> their products.

Sorry for a stupid question, but..

What exactly is ALS ? 


-Andi