[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-09-08, Stephen Davies <joviangm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 September 2016 11:38:31 UTC+1, Dirk Munk  wrote:
>
>> Unless I'm very much mistaken, ADA is a registered trade mark. An ADA 
>> compiler can only carry the name "ADA" if it is confirmed to comply with 
>> the latest test sets of sources every year(?). A 1983 ADA compiler 
>> surely has no right to carry the name "ADA" in this respect.
>
> From http://archive.adaic.com/pol-hist/policy/trademrk.txt
>
> "The Ada Joint Program Office has announced that the Federal registration
> of Ada as a trademark will not be maintained after November 30, 1987."

In addition, it's perfectly normal to describe the older Ada compilers
as being either an Ada-83 compiler or an Ada-95 compiler.

Simon.

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