From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and embedded applications
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:25:27 -0500
Date: 2001-06-05T13:25:27-05:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: akXS6.63509$%i7.48165181@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com
tmoran@acm.org wrote in message ...
>>that may not offer much support for them. (Floating point? Context
switching
>>for tasks? Lots of things get to be a problem on small chips.) C,
lacking
> I used to regularly compile and run Ada 83 programs in 16 bit DOS on
>a 286, often generating a small memory model (64K) .com file. But I
grant
>that's gigantic compared to 512 bytes of RAM.
As I recall, that version could make useful programs that fit in 16K ROM
and 2K RAM. The only reason to prefer C is ignorance...
Randy.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-04 18:59 Ada and embedded applications Chris Campbell
2001-06-04 19:34 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-04 21:12 ` Chris Campbell
2001-06-04 21:33 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2001-06-04 21:33 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-04 22:33 ` Chris Campbell
2001-06-05 7:55 ` Chris Campbell
2001-06-05 15:03 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-04 22:09 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-05 2:18 ` tmoran
2001-06-05 13:38 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-06 4:09 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-06-05 18:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-06-05 18:25 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2001-06-05 20:18 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-05 7:45 ` Martin Dowie
2001-06-05 13:49 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-05 20:47 ` Martin Dowie
2001-06-05 10:15 ` Rod Chapman
2001-06-04 21:02 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-06-04 20:06 ` Ehud Lamm
2001-06-04 21:18 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-05 12:35 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-06-05 19:00 ` Pascal Obry
2001-06-04 21:15 ` Robert A Duff
2001-06-04 21:30 ` Chris Campbell
2001-06-05 2:06 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-06-05 14:04 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-05 7:50 ` Martin Dowie
2001-06-05 14:24 ` John English
2001-06-08 23:55 ` Robert A Duff
2001-06-09 12:47 ` Ehud Lamm
2001-06-14 16:27 ` Pat Rogers
2001-06-06 2:31 ` Ken Garlington
2001-06-06 11:14 ` Chris Campbell
2001-06-06 15:47 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-06 17:57 ` Jerry van Dijk
2001-06-06 22:32 ` Chris Campbell
2001-06-06 22:37 ` Chris Campbell
2001-06-06 15:42 ` Marin David Condic
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