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There is no "Ada computer".

The computer that Countess Ada Augusta Lovelace wrote programs for was the never built Analytical Engine designed by Charles Babbage in the 1830s. The never built Analytical Engine was a mechanical digital computer that operated in the decimal number system powered by a steam engine. Had it ever been built it would have completely filled a large industrial factory buildingof the time.

The Ada programming language is an object oriented language originally specified by the US Military to replace more than 400 different and incompatible, mostly obsolete programming languages then in use in the 1970s and becoming hard to maintain. It has special "high reliability" features that make its use desirable in applications where failure is unacceptable (e.g. avionics, spacecraft). This language is named in honor of Countess Ada Augusta Lovelace.

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