I worked at a NASA contractor around 1990. They had these dedicated Rational workstations with an IDE just for Ada, it made it kind of fun. My recollection is

I worked at a NASA contractor around 1990. They had these dedicated Rational workstations with an IDE just for Ada, it made it kind of fun. My recollection is it was better than other IDEs at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_R1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_R1000 Today it sounds silly because we can get a portable/configurable IDE for every language under the sun on any platform but back then this was amazing. We did have some process that I can't recall right now to port this to DEC/IBM mainframes/minicomputers.