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Re: OpenAda

From Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.ada
Subject Re: OpenAda
Date 2026-01-07 19:29 +0100
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David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote in 1996:
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"Hi John,                                                                  |
|Just one small correction.  Meridian merged with Verdix in about 1993, and |
|Verdix merged with Rational in 1994.                                       |
|Last time I talked to them the (former) Meridian folks were handling sales |
|and some development on the VADS NT product.  Whether this is still true, I|
|don't know.                                                                |
|--                                                                         |
|David C. Hoos, Sr.,                                                        |
|http://www.dbhwww.com                                                      |
|http://www.ada95.com                                                       |
|                                                                           |
|John Herro <johnherro@aol.com> wrote in article                            |
|<50gngv$jkt@newsbf02.news.aol.com>...                                      |
|> "Whistler" <conde@ucla.edu> wrote                                        |
|> > I desperately need Open Ada PC ...                                     |
|> > It is an Ada compiler.  Whatever that                                  |
|> > is. ... Anyone who knows where I can                                   |
|> > get it, and what it's for, please e-mail me                            |
|>      An Ada compiler is a program that translates the Ada programming    |
|> language to the language of your machine, in this case a PC, so that it  |
|> can run programs written in Ada.  Ada is, in my opinion, the very best   |
|> programming language because it's less error prone than other programming|
|> languages.                                                               |
|>      Meridian Software Systems, who made Open Ada PC, no longer exists.  |
|> However, the Open Ada PC compiler is now sold by D.C. Heath Co., 2700 N. |
|> Richardt Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46219-1186 for $66.67 plus tax and       |
|> shipping.                                                                |
|> Phone 800-334-3284, 800-428-8071, 317-359-5585, or 617-862-6650,         |
|> fax 800-824-7390.                                                        |
|>      For more information about Ada, visit the Web or FTP site below my  |
|> signature and download my Ada Tutor program.                             |
|>      You'll like programming in Ada, and you'll find the people here in  |
|> comp.lang.ada eager to help.                                             |
|> - John Herro                                                             |
|> Software Innovations Technology                                          |
|> http://members.aol.com/AdaTutor                                          |
|> ftp://members.aol.com/AdaTutor"                                          |
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Professor Carlos Alberto Nabais Conde has asked me can one use Adobe 
Acrobat Reader to open a zip file! Sic.

Professor Carlos Alberto Nabais Conde had used Ferranti Mercury Autocode 
and Ferranti Atlas Autocode in the 1960's.

(He is not Whistler <conde@UCLA.edu> aka Adam Conde.)

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