Amiga UX and Ada

[Kent Paul Dolan]

 g_harrison at vger.nsu.edu ((George C. Harrison) Norfolk State University) writes:

> We are SERIOUSLY considering a lab of AMIGA3000UX's but would like to
> also have an Ada compiler to extend some of our faculty and student
> research. gcc and cc may be fine for some folks, but some of our work
> is strictly Ada-based.

> Does anyone know of any development efforts in Ada compilers for this
> computer?

> Since the operating system is essentially generic, it would "seem"
> that developing an Ada compiler would be relatively simple IF there is
> enough interest.

> Truth, rumors, outrageous rumors, etc. will be fine.

> (No, Ada flames, please. I can "duke" it out for Ada with the best of
> them!)

Considering that you're looking at a vanilla sysVr4 operating system,
_any_ 68000 family targeted Ada compiler that runs under sysVr4 should
be immediately portable _in_ _binary_ to the Amiga, as long as it
doesn't get cute with its original machine's architecture, which would
be really unnecessary stupidity for a compiler!

Considering the scarsity of sysVr4 implementations out of beta test right
now, you might have to wait a few months, but I wouldn't let lack of a
future Ada compiler act as a stumbling block; the A3000UX is pretty
visible as a target platform, and there are already lots of 68000 family
targeted and hosted Ada compilers written and validated; porting one
to a Unix system should be a snap.

Kent, the man from xanth.
<xanthian at Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian at well.sf.ca.us>
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Oh, yeah; Hi George!  Just noticed whom I was answering.