From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9960fa51a4a478af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-03 06:48:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!213.204.128.162!news000.worldonline.se!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!freenix!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ACT announces availability of GNAT 3.14p Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 15:46:33 +0100 Organization: RFC 1149 (see http://www.rfc1149.net/) Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <5ee5b646.0201301849.4e951bcb@posting.google.com> <3C5CEFCE.D41ABFFF@eliminatespam.notes.udayton.edu> <3c5d136a.741292@news.cis.dfn.de> <5ee5b646.0202030618.380d47f7@posting.google.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1012747682 2083 137.194.161.2 (3 Feb 2002 14:48:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 14:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5ee5b646.0202030618.380d47f7@posting.google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Precedence: special-delivery X-WWW: http://www.rfc1149.net/sam X-Mail-Processing: Sam's procmail tools X-ICQ: 21547599 X-Sam-Laptop: yes Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 X-Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19562 Date: 2002-02-03T15:46:33+01:00 On 3/02, Robert Dewar wrote: | Actually our experience so far is that, at least as a GNAT | Pro development environment, XP is more stable than NT (I | am in the process of switching my own development from OS/2 | to XP now, since unfortunately our tools have not continued to be | developed for OS/2, so it is time to say goodbye to the only *really* | stable system for the PC that I met so far :-) Well, it looks like you have not tested FreeBSD then :) PC running a stable version of FreeBSD do typically have uptimes of hundreds of days. Last July, you wrote after your signature "(who one of these days will probably bite the bullet and switch to Linux -- I am beginning to miss some of the nice GNAT tools that are not available on OS/2 -- anyone know of an implementation of EPM on Linux :-)". Will you choose Windows XP rather than Linux? Sam