ANNOUNCE : First public release of DSA (Distrib. Annex for GNAT)

ANNOUNCE : First public release of DSA (Distrib. Annex for GNAT)

[Cyrille Comar]

Ada Core Technologies, ACT-Europe and the DSA Development team at ENST
(composed of Yvon Kermarrec, Laurent Nana, Laurent Pautet and Samuel
Tardieu) are happy to announce the first public release of DSA (*), the
Ada 95 Distributed Systems Annex implementation for GNAT.

DSA is an environment for developing distributed applications based on
Annex E of the Ada 95 Reference Manual. This environment comprises:

     - a complete PCS (Partition Communication System)
     - a compiler for a simple partition description language
     - utilities to build and start distributed applications

This first release works with GNAT 3.05 on Sparc/Solaris and PC/Linux. This
release also works on Sparc/SunOS although less efficiently.

Versions for DEC/OSF, HP/HP-UX, Windows NT and SGI/Irix will be
available in the near future.

Commercial support for DSA will be available from Ada Core
Technologies and ACT-Europe. Contact support@gnat.com or
support@act-europe.gnat.com for further details.

DSA can be downloaded by anonymous ftp from cs.nyu.edu
(pub/gnat/dsa/dsa-1.0.tar.gz) and the usual GNAT mirror sites
around the world.

(*) This work was partially funded by Computer Sciences Corp (CSC)