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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
A 16 bit Ada compiler targeting OS/2 1.x and later ported to 32 bit OS/2 2.x and higher. | A 16 bit Ada compiler targeting DOS and OS/2 1.x and later ported to 32 bit OS/2 2.x and higher and 32 bit extended DOS using [[VCPI]], because the VCPI version had been validated the company was unwilling to bear the cost of validating a [[DPMI]] version and thus the 32 bit code output by the DOS compiler will not work in OS/2 or Windows. | ||
==Versions== | ==Versions== | ||
Revision as of 13:52, 13 December 2014
Description
A 16 bit Ada compiler targeting DOS and OS/2 1.x and later ported to 32 bit OS/2 2.x and higher and 32 bit extended DOS using VCPI, because the VCPI version had been validated the company was unwilling to bear the cost of validating a DPMI version and thus the 32 bit code output by the DOS compiler will not work in OS/2 or Windows.
Versions
- Accounts differ on what was the last OS/2 version, a large number of version 5.5 are out there branded Alsys, but some claim that a bug fixed version 5.6 existed as well that was branded Thomson.
Publications
- Product reviews: Alsys OS/2 Ada compiler version 4.2 - From the Journal of Pascal, Ada & Modula-2 - March/April 1989 pages 62 to 66.