From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, MONEY_BACK autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc76f70bc9390f47 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-03 07:03:16 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat Ada 9X - What sort of PC does it need??? Date: 3 Oct 1994 08:15:14 -0400 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <36oski$2ac@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <36ocvj$9en@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1994-10-03T08:15:14-04:00 List-Id: Here is a more general idea of what hardware we recommend for running the PC version of GNAT, using either OS/2 or DJPP: Minimum: 486 25 MHz 200 meg hard drive 8 megs of memory such systems should be available with 14" color monitor in the $1250 range or even cheaper if you settle for a no-name clone (but be sure to check OS compatibility in this case, make sure you have a money back guarantee) The $1250 is for a minstream machine (e.g. Compaq Presario 433, which is actually a 33MHz machine, in fact you may as well go for a 33 MHz, really they cost so little more today). Note that SZ or DX does not really affect GNAT performance, since the compiler itself does not use floating-point. Desirable: Pentium 400 meg drive 16 megs of memory now you are in the $2000-$2500 range, although in the latest computer shopper, there was a Pentium clone for less than $1500. One of the nice things about the timing of GNAT is that the hardware that you buy today has caught up nicely with the requirements of GCC/GNAT. A couple of years ago, specs like the above would have seemed much too luxurious, but these days, minimal student machines are likely to at least match the "minimum" spec above (with the possible need to add 4 megs of memory). Of course when compiling large programs or systems, more power will never hurt. In particular, more memory is always helpful, and GNAT should be able to take convenient advantage of the new symmetric multi processing systems coming out (running OS/2 MP or NT with the soon to be available GNAT port to NT/x86). THe lack of a required order of compilation is particularly helpful when compiling large programs on an MP system.