Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 20:40:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Ada and djgpp
To: elston AT cave DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>I am very excited about GNAT and the (upcoming) validation testing.  I
>am sorry to hear that (as I read in the documentation) the DOS version
>does not support tasking.  I hope that is rectified soon.  Dos will be
>my primary Ada platform for a while.

You must be one heck of an optimist.  DOS was designed from the ground up
to be unitasking (monotasking?), and making it anything else is nontrivial.

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