Re: No Y2k Bug

[Bob Scheurle <scheurle@z-eclipse-z.net>]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 06:43:24 GMT, dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David
Bromage) wrote:
>
>> >At my company (well, not _my_ company; you know what I mean) we use Ada
>> >on a bare machine.  No operating system, no run-time system, just the
>> >tasking built into the Ada language.
>
>> That's interesting. Truth is, I haven't heard anything about Ada for
>> many years now; I didn't know people were still using it.
>
>The US Department of Defense lives and breathes Ada. The DoD also has a
>stranglehold on Intel by insisting that all new versions of the
>x86/Pentium are upwardly compatable with the 8086.

There's no longer any broad-brush requirement to use Ada.  Also, we can't
use a Pentium, because nobody makes one that will work at -55C.

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