banner@acf2.UUCP (Bernard Banner) (09/29/86)
The Ada/Ed-C system has been successfully ported to the IBM-PC and is now
available for distribution. Ada/Ed is an interpreter, with a run-time
performance comparable to that of BASIC. It is a full implementation of Ada,
not a subset. It requires a hard disk but no other special hardware, and will
run successfully on any IBM-PC, PC-XT, PC-AT, or generic clone. The capacity is
nevertheless limited by the amount of memory avialable, and the system is
not usable with less than 640K of memory. On the PC-AT, the use of Digital
Research Concurrent (TM) DOS 286 makes it possible to use 4MB of memory, and
obtain a performance which is 50% of that of Ada/Ed-C on the SUN-2 workstation.
On a regular PC, programs of a few hundred lines (depending on the type and
structure of the program) can be compiled and run.
Ada/Ed-C for the IBM-PC is primarily intended for instructional use, and is
being distributed by New York University at a cost of $95.
In addition Ada/Ed-C is currently available on VAX running UNIX BSD 4.2, VAX
running VMS 4.3, on SUN workstations, and on the ELXSI 6400 running ENIX. These
four versions have been validated under the ACVC 1.7 test suite.
For further information regarding distribution and pricing, write:
NYUADA project
New York University
251 Mercer Street
New York, N.Y. 10012
(212) 460-7482
or send electronic mail to:
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