Computerbase International Inc, Irvine, California, is seeking to raise $8.6m to prototype and put into production the ALPS Ada Language Processing System, an integrated hardware-software environment which provides parallel, shared task, multiprocessing execution of compiled high level languages, optimised for Ada: the timetable calls for a development phase for the first prototype, then a test and integration phase, and after that the development of the second prototype, the Gate Array version, coupled with an ad campaign.