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August 2, 1996 

FIRST Ada DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR MACINTOSH CREATED 
THROUGH THE ATIP-P

Tenon Intersystems, in a joint venture with Ada Core Technologies and McKee Consulting, is creating the first Ada development environment for Macintosh and Power Macintosh. The project, which is funded in part by the Ada Joint Program Office's ATIP-P (Ada Technology Insertion Program Partnership), is extending Tenon's UNIX system for Apple computers to include the GNAT-Ada 95 tool suite. This ATIP-P effort is one of ten competitive awards to different vendors to stimulate utilization of the Ada 95 language by bringing to market a variety of products that support the Ada language.

Because the GNAT Ada front-end will be released to the General Public License (GPL), free availability of the system and its source code will be ensured. This will provide a low-cost Ada development environment for academic and government markets.

Tenon's MachTen UNIX/Mach software for Macintosh and Power Macintosh supports a complete GNU software development environment. The GNAT-MAC team brought Ada 95 to the entire range of Macintosh platforms by leveraging Tenon's existing gcc development tool suite. Preliminary versions of GNAT-MAC are available now on the Internet.

For more information, contact Tenon Intersystems at: 1123 Chapala St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Tel: 805/963-6983, WWW: http://www.tenon.com

SOURCE:
Tenon Intersystems Press Release, June 24, 1996. 

SUCCESS FOR SEAWOLF SUB MEANS SUCCESS FOR Ada

U.S. Navy and shipbuilding industry officials say initial trials of the service's SSN-21 Seawolf attack submarine herald a new era in undersea warfare, according to Defense News. Those within the Ada community may recall the development of a large Ada-based Submarine Combat System (SCS), the AN/BSY-2 and a subset, the AN/BQG-5, by Lockheed Martin (then Martin Marietta) Ocean, Radar and Sensor Systems. Together, the AN/BSY-2 and the AN/BQG-5 comprise more than 4 million lines of unique Ada code that were used in the Seawolf submarine.

The AN/BSY-2 development program is proof of Ada's capabilities in large, extensive, embedded systems. The AN/BSY-2 SCS is said to be the most advanced system of its type in the world, the "brains" of the Seawolf submarine. According to the article, the Ada technology used on the Seawolf has proven to be a true success, "The combination of the speed and the stealth and the weapon-carrying capacity of this ship really makes it the most powerful warship in the world: not just the most powerful submarine," said Adm. Bruce DeMArs, director of naval nuclear propulsion, in describing the initial trials.

For the complete success story "Going to Sea With Ada," printed in Defense Electronics, October 1994, contact the AdaIC at 1-800/232-4211.

SOURCE:
Holzer, Robert. "Sea Trials Prompt U.S. Navy to Tout Seawolf Sub's Virtues," Defense News. July 15-20, 1996: 12. 

Ada GUI DEVELOPMENT TOOL RELEASED

XVT Software Inc. recently announced the release of Development Solution for Ada (DSA), the industry's first cross-platform, graphical user interface (GUI) Ada development tool. DSA allows programmers to build high- performance, client applications rapidly and then port the applications to a wide variety of platforms. DSA was developed through a U.S. Army contract and is available immediately.

For more information, contact XVT Software Inc. at: 4900 Pearl East Circle, Boulder, CO 90301. Tel: 303/443- 4223, Internet: info@xvt.com, WWW: http://www.xvt.com

SOURCE:
XVT Software Inc. Press Release, July 15, 1996. Obtained from Business Wire via Individual Inc. 

NEWEST Ada COMPILER VALIDATED

The AJPO issued its first validation certificate last week for ACVC Version 2.0.1 -- the newest version of the test suite --- to Thomson Software Products. The compiler name is 7000 OA ObjectAda for Unix for HP-PA RISC/HP-UX, Version 7.0. The compiler's host and target is HP 9000 J200 running under HP-UX 10.01.

SOURCE:
Ada Joint Program Office

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