apollo@ecf.UUCP (09/10/87)
We are looking at the possibility,in the future, of doing some work in Ada. The hosting, or development, environment will be Apollo workstations and the target environment will be in all likelihood an Intel 80386/iRMX/MultibusII system. I would like to know then if anyone knows i) of the various merits of the different Ada compilers for Apollos ii) having answered that question can these compilers provide support for 386 boards. Feel free to either post to net or e-mail responses to me. Thanks in advance. Vince Pugliese University of Toronto (416)667 7744 e-mail:apollo@ecf.toronto.edu
spray@smu (09/13/87)
Alsys, TeleSoft and Verdix all have compilers hosted on the Apollo and at least two (Alsys and Verdix) have announced 386 target capability, though not necessarily on the Apollo host. Also PSS is targeting the Tartan Labs compiler to the 386. One word to the wise from someone who used to be in Marketing, there are many modes in which to run code on the 386, so it is possible to have a 386 compiler which in fact just makes the chip run like a very fast 8086 or 80286. Good questions to ask are about address space and instruction sets used. Rob Spray Electrospace Systems Inc ...convex!smu!spray Disclaimer: Through present and past affiliations, I've been a customer of Alsys, TeleSoft and Verdix (no, I am not going to pick between them, they are all in my personal opinion, industrial- strength systems). 2nd Disclaimer: This was posted to comp.lang.ada on Usenet. If, through the magic of gateways, this constitutes a commercial endorsement in a message on the Internet, then perchance there is a lack of moderation at the gateway site.