Ada Programming Language

Materials, 1981-1990

CBI 157

0.8 cubic feet in 3 boxes

By: Carrie Seib and Matthew James Buell, May 2001

ACQUISITION: The records were given to Stanford University Libraries, History of Science and Technology Collections, by Steven E. Barryte, and subsequently transferred to the Charles Babbage Institute.

ACCESS: The collection is unrestricted.

COPYRIGHT: The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

PREFERRED CITATION: Please cite the collection as follows: Ada Programming Language Materials (CBI 157), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

History

Ada is a high-level programming language developed in the period between 1975-1980 to supercede the hundreds of critical systems languages used by the U.S. Department of Defense. The language was standardized in 1983, and revised in 1995.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of corporate product literature describing software products designed for the Ada language; U.S. government publications, including Ada 9X project reports, technical reports, working papers, newsletters; and user group information produced by or for the U.S. government concerning implementing and working with the Ada language.

Arrangement of the Collection

• Corporate Publications, 1985-1989
• Government Publications, 1981-1990
• Press Clippings-Citations, 1986-1989
• Special Interest/User Groups, Professional Consortia, 1988-1989
• University of Vermont Course Materials, 1985

Index Terms

• Ada (Computer Programming Language)
• SIGAda

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INVENTORY

Corporate Publications, 1985-1989

• AdaData (Box 1, folder 1)
• Alsys, Inc. (Box 1, folder 1)
• BiiN (Box 1, folder 1)
• Concurrent Computer Corporation (Box 1, folder 1)
• DDC-I, Inc. (Box 1, folder 1)
• Digital Equipment Corporation [see SC-Scicon] (Box 1, folder 3)
• Grebyn Corporation (Box 1, folder 2)
• Harris Corporation (Box 1, folder 2)
• Hughes Aircraft Company (Box 1, folder 2)
• ICONIX (Box 1, folder 2)
• Industrial Programming, Inc. (Box 1, folder 2)
• Intel Corporation (Box 1, folder 2)
• InterACT Corporation (Box 1, folder 2)
• McDonnell Douglas (Box 1, folder 2)
• National Semiconductor Corporation (Box 1, folder 2)
• Proprietary Software Systems (Box 1, folder 2)
• Raytheon (Box 1, folder 2)
• Ready Systems (Box 1, folder 2)
• Scientific Placement, Inc. (Box 1, folder 3)
• SD-Scicon [formerly Systems Designers Software, Inc.] (Box 1, folder 3)
• Tandem Computers (Box 1, folder 3)
• Tartan Laboratories, Inc. (Box 1, folder 3)
• Tektronix, Inc. (Box 1, folder 3)
• Telesoft (Box 1, folder 3)
• Xinotech Research, Inc. (Box 1, folder 3)

Government Publications, 1981-1990

· Ada 9X Project Reports, 1989-1990

o Ada 9X Project Plan, January 1989 (Box 1, folder 4)

o Character Set Issues for Ada 9X, October 1989 (Box 1, folder 5)

o A Study of Implementation-Dependent Programs and Attributes in Ada, November 1989 (Box 1, folder 6)

o Shared Variables and Ada 9x Issues, January 1990 (Box 1, folder 7)

o The Fixed Point Facility in Ada, February 1990 (Box 1, folder 8)

· Ada Information Clearinghouse Newsletter, 1986-1990 (Box 1, folders 9-10)

· Ada-JOVIAL Newsletter, 1986-1990 (Box 2, folder 1-2)

· Ada-JOVIAL Users Group Meetings, 1985-1988 (Box 2, folders 3-5)

· Government Publications, 1981-1989 (Box 2, folder 6-7)

Press Clippings/Citations, 1986-1989

· Press Clippings/Citations, 1986-1989 (Box 3, folder 1)

Special Interest/User Groups, Professional Consortia, 1986-1989

· Association for Computing Machinery SIGAda, 1986-1989 (Box 3, folders 2-3)

· Ada Expo convention brochure, 1988 (Box 3, folder 4)

· Ada Language Issues Working Group Meeting Minutes, December 1987 (Box 3, folder 4)

· Numerical Algorithms Group Ada Library, 1988-1989 (Box 3, folder 4)

· Rational Users’ Group Newsletter, February 1988-January 1989 (Box 3, folder 4)

University of Vermont Course Materials, 1985

· University of Vermont Course Materials, 1985 (Box 3, folder 5)