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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-25 21:49:02 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pogner.demon.co.uk!zap!not-for-mail
From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
Date: 23 Apr 2002 06:30:58 +0100
Organization: Pushface
Message-ID: <x7vhem30ynh.fsf@smaug.pushface.org>
References: <5ee5b646.0204200830.2bd258d2@posting.google.com>
 <7wjw8.6355$Bl5.3716799705@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>
 <3CC207BA.5F039C6D@adaworks.com> <aa19r9$q6q$1@nh.pace.co.uk>
 <uc9nipnjt9615c@corp.supernews.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98
X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1019796513 nnrp-13:16638 NO-IDENT
 pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98
X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Apr 2002 05:30:58 GMT
User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23133
Date: 2002-04-23T05:30:58+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> Of course, a "modest PC" now has 100 times the memory and is 100
> times faster. Hardly a fair comparison. About the only difference is
> the cost ($99 versus nothing). Certainly Janus/Ada "basically
> worked".

Yep, I remember that! Even so far as having shared generics, if I
remember correctly.

The modest PC I used was an 8 MHz PC-AT clone with 2 MB RAM and 20 MB
HDD. Sigh.