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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!psuvax1!psuvm!j0s
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 09:58:54 EDT
- From: Jack W. Sharer <J0S@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92206.095854J0S@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Ada for OS/2
- References: <64242@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Lines: 14
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- In article <64242@hydra.gatech.EDU>, np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio) says:
- >I have recently switched to the OS/2 operating system (as have many others
- >in my laboratory) on an IBM PC compatible. I had been using Meridian
- >OpenAda 386 under DOS, but it won't run in a DOS window under OS/2 because,
- >apparently, it uses a VCPI extender to access the protected mode of the 386
- >while compiling. I called Meridian, and was told that they have no plans
- >to upgrade to a DPMI compliant extender (which does run under OS/2), but
- >that they are considering possibly developing an OS/2 native version.
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- If Meridian uses the PharLap DOS extender, then they may just need to
- relink with the newest PharLap system which supports DPMI.
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- BTY, Alsys sells an OS/2 version of Ada.
-