FYI, there's a thread entitled "RTeal-time Ada Programming Rules ?" in the comp.realtime newsgroup. Some of you more eloquent then I am, might want to respond to the misinformation spread there about the "wretched performance" of "lots of [] Ada idioms" in general and the unsuitability of Ada tasking in particular... Dirk ([log in to unmask] for Ada-Belgium/Europe/WG9 mail) *** 10th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2005 *** June 20-24, 2005 *** York, UK *** http://www.ada-europe.org ***