What is GW-Ada/Ed-Mac?

GW-Ada/Ed-Mac is a development environment built around the New York University (NYU) AdaEd compiler/interpreter. It allows the editing, compiling, binding and execution of Ada 83 programs.

Ada/Ed was developed several years ago, and validated under the Ada Compiler Validation Capability suite then in effect. Ada/Ed is a full-scale compiler, which generates instructions for a virtual machine. Execution is carried out by an interpreter for this virtual machine.

Ada/Ed handles nearly all of Ada 83, including tasking and generics. Not supported are a number of machine-dependent features, most of which are not sensible to support in a virtual-machine environment.

The multi-window editor follows the usual Macintosh menu and command-key conventions. Source files are limited to 32k characters, however. Standard output is sent to a subset-VT100 console window, so that cursor addressing and other ANSI escape sequences are supported.

Feldman, Michael B. (1995). GW-Ada/Ed for Apple Macintosh. www.adahome.com/Resources/Compilers/GWU-Mac.html

Download GW-Ada/Ed-Mac for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.0

Compatibility notes

Minimum Requirements

• MC68020 processor
• 4 MB RAM
• 10 MB hard drive space available
• System 7.0

* A special version was created that would run on the MC68000 processor.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II