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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?
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Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> writes:

> Set top boxes actually have pretty large processors & memories. They
> really are not that far off from being a PC in most respects. The last
> one I was programming was using the GCC compiler - so it would not
> have been that hard to target Gnat to it and potentially started a
> whole new market area for Ada. But the intellectual resistance there
> was high and all the related infrastructure was C, C++ or Java
> oriented so it was a tough sell. Had there been a set-top Ada OS, it
> might have been a different story.
> 
> Now toasters? That I can't speak to. :-)

I was thinking more of the price point! a few thousand UKP per card is
more than most of us would want to pay ..

I see from a UK PC magazine that the TiVo (capitalisation?) is
basically a Linux box.

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.