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In article <3B7D47F1.25D6FC78@boeing.com>, Jeffrey Carter says...
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>The AdaOS people have decided they need to write a compiler before they
>can write an OS. Without discussing whether they are correct, I see a
>parallel with the GNU project. GNU (GNU's Not Unix) was a project to
>write an OS. They decided they needed to write a compiler first. While
>the result was a very useful free compiler, it is instructive to note
>that GNU never created an OS.

Well, there is HURD, but I don't think its reached 1.0 yet.

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