Ada /= ADA, Mac /= MAC, C++ /= CPLUSPLUS, etc.

Ada /= ADA, Mac /= MAC, C++ /= CPLUSPLUS, etc.

[Alexy V. Khrabrov]

That's it. I never saw a message with ADA in it which was an
"intermediary/advanced" Ada thought. One thing which makes Ada
different is readability, which is a bit of aesthetics, and Mac is a
similar artistic thing in systems. Another good system was Intel 432.
BTW, who works with Intel iAPX 432 now? I think it's a pity that it
gave birth to i386..., while the Ada-based OS is forgotten. How nice it
would be to have a native AdaOS (seize the name! free :-). And w/o
correct capitalization, one couldn't distinguish say AdaOS from some
ADAOS. Actually it may be important, as Norman Cohen stressed that
something like CBS_Volumes differs from CBs_Volumes.

  Alexy V. Khrabrov
(<Alexy.V.Khrabrov@Dartmouth.EDU>)
--``Age Quod Agis''

Re: Ada /= ADA, Mac /= MAC, C++ /= CPLUSPLUS, etc.

[gamache]

In article <38v15f$no6@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, 
Alexy.V.Khrabrov@dartmouth.edu (Alexy V. Khrabrov) writes:
> That's it. I never saw a message with ADA in it which was an
> "intermediary/advanced" Ada thought. One thing which makes Ada
> different is readability, which is a bit of aesthetics, and Mac is a
> similar artistic thing in systems. Another good system was Intel 432.
> BTW, who works with Intel iAPX 432 now? I think it's a pity that it
> gave birth to i386..., while the Ada-based OS is forgotten. How nice it
> would be to have a native AdaOS (seize the name! free :-). 


Someone from Intel may wish to comment, but the 432 did not give birth to
the i386.  To the best of my knowledge it was shelved until such time as 
reduced implementation geometries allowed successful repackaging -> this
repackaging is currently known as the Intel's i960 product family.  It is
used in alot of products like laser printers....


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