RE: Ada for Windows CE

["Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: William J. Thomas et al.
Ed Falis, while he was at Aonix, was able to link Aonix Ada with Windows CE.
Since Ed is now at ACT, the conventional step would be for either ACT to
crate a product or for some other group to support Windows CE. I must admit,
that I do have reservations because of GNAT being available for free. I
believe that there may be a way around this. Give away GNAT, as usual, and
sell some useful low-level libraries or other tools for embedded systems.
What is ACT's policy on what I would call a sublicense for a specific
architecture?

There is an ongoing discussion of embedded tools in Ada. I suspect that one
could construct generic device driver classes (Metaclasses) that would be
much easier to use than the present commercial ones in C. I also believe
that the output to printers and graphics boards will be XML.

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]On Behalf Of William J. Thomas
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 6:38 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Ada for Windows CE


I remember asking AONIX a few years ago when/if they were going to produce a
CE compatible compiler. AONIX in its great wisdom replied that they did not
see a market for CE.

Mind you these were the same folks who back in the 80's did not see a market
for a Windows based compiler.

WJT

"William A Whitaker" <whitaker@erols.com> wrote in message
news:3A8DF1F4.7CC362A1@erols.com...
> In the book "XML by example" there is the claim (by W3C?) that by 2002
> 75% of surfing will be on handhelds.  True or not, there is a lot of
> that going around.  Regularly  iget requests for my LAtin dictionary for
> handheld Windows CE, or even the DOS-like partitions on handhelds.
>
> I hereby make my yearly search/request for Ada compilers targeted to
> these systems.  They are becoming more prevalent.
>
> Whitaker
>
>
> I support Shakespeare and Latin!