1 Feb
2003
1 Feb
'03
7:59 p.m.
On Feb 1, 16:24, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Excuse me? The GNAT development environment is very
much available
on Windows. I've been tempted to install it on Windows as there is
a very nice looking IDE (I believe done by the Air Force) that is
freely available for Windows.
Indeed, Computer Science at York does quite a lot of teaching in Ada on
Windows. I don't know if they still do, but they used to let students
in practical classes use either Linux or Windows, because Ada was one
of the few things that works exactly hte same under either -- except,
in our setup, for network bandwidth. The Ada classes (using Windows)
were responsible for my having to upgrade the classroom links.
One thing about Ada that I found rather interesting
was mention of an
OS written in Great Britain in the early 80's. It was written in Ada
and ran on the PDP-11.
Probably written by CompSci staff at York. They certainly wrote a
compiler and an environment to support it.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
2 Feb
2 Feb
2:30 a.m.
On 2003.02.02 01:31 pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com wrote:
On Feb 1, 16:24, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I suspect it was written entirely by them, but am not sure, as I've
only read a few brief parts of the book. It would be interesting to
know if the code still exists, and could be made publically available
as they used PDP-11/23's, one with a RP02 clone, the other with a
RL02 and floppy. It should be fairly easy to put together the HW to
run the RL02 config (if the RP02 clone config isn't a requirement).
Zane
One thing about Ada that I found rather
interesting was mention of
an
OS written in Great Britain in the early
80's. It was written in
Ada
and ran on the PDP-11.
Probably written by CompSci staff at York. They certainly wrote a
compiler and an environment to support it.
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