The Walnut Creek Ada CDROM (August 1996 Edition)

If you plan to attend the 1996 Ada-Belgium Seminar on November 22, this is the Ada CDROM you will receive for free there.

1.3 GB of Ada documentation, information, and source code from the Public Ada Library on a Two Disc Set!

Ada users should not be without this library!

This CDROM is a copy of the Internet's Public Ada Library (PAL). With over 1.3 GB documentation, information, source code, and ready-to-run tools and compliers, this two-disc set is a valuable resource for any serious Ada programmer. 6,000 files added or updated since the February 1996 edition.

Included you'll find:

• Major Update! GNAT 3.04 & 3.05, the GNU NYU Ada95 Translator sponsored by the Free Software Foundation and the DoD's Ada Joint Program Office. The first VALIDATED free Ada95 complier! Fully integrated with the GNU C complier, allowing mix of Ada95 and C code. Source included! Ready-to-run ports of GNAT for DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Solaris, SunOS, Linux, Silicon Graphics & more.
• New! Courseware from the Advanced Software Technology Open House at Monmouth University on Ada95, Java, and their interaction and issues. Included is a DoD-level briefing by Ms. Synthia Rand, Principal Manager of Information Systems, Assistant Secretary of Defence for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence.
• New! Briefing by the Honorable Emmett Paige, Assistant Secretary of Defence for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence on the DoD's Corporate Information Management initative.
• Update! EZ2LOAD, Plug-and-Play for DOS and Windows 95/NT that includes a complete Ada83 and Ada95 software development environment and installs directly from the CDROM.
• Update to the Lovelace Ada95 Tutorial (now at V.5.3). This tutorial is written in HTML for use by a World Wide Web browser. Lovelace is unpacked, ready to run directly off the CDROM. Lovelace also includes a distribution using the Cello browser for MSDOS (including the Cello Browser Itself), ready to copy, unpack, and run under MSDOS.
• Update! A large set of Ada , bindings, including bindings to OSI, ADAR, ASIS, CICS, DCE, GKS, GPEF, GPPF, IRDS, PCTE, PHIG, POSIX, X11, Motif, and MS Windows.
• Over 300 MB of information on Ada83 and Ada95, including:
  • Guide to compiling Ada83 programs using Ada95 compilers
  • An Ada95 transition guide
  • An adoption handbook
  • Reference manuals and tutorials
  • Rational for the design of Ada
• 80 cources in Ada, Software Engineering, Software Reuse, OOD, OOP, Domain Engineering, real-time, concurrent programming, and other current topics. Hundreds of technical reports and references, including over 200 MB of material from the Software Engineering Institute.
• A catalog of the Public Ada Library (over 2,000 pages covering this CDROM). The catalog is in text, Postscript, HTML, and an Interactive reader that runs under DOS. You can print the catalog out, view it using a World Wide Web browser, or run it on your PC!
• An Ada CDROM World Wide Web home page, complete with access to the catalog of the Public Ada Library and the PAL Frequently Asked Questions List.
• This CDROM can be browsed using Netscape and other Web browsers! Start with the file 00_cd.html or 00_cd_a.htm.

To the Ada-Belgium home page. To the 1996 Ada-Belgium Seminar Home Page.

Last update: 96/11/17.