From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
Date: 1996/07/22
Date: 1996-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Jul22.144035.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31F37B86.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com
In article <31F37B86.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com>, "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> writes:
> Michael Feldman wrote:
>>
>> I agree with the other writers that there is little or no commercial
>> reason for an Ada clone of an existing, supported, OS. Why reinvent
>> the wheel? Why fix what isn't broken?
>
>
> Well...it would plug up quite a few of UNIX's security holes.
But then it might not be Unix.
What some of us security advocates see as "holes", long-term Unix
advocates see as "features".
At some point one has changed the operating characteristics of an
environment so much that it is no longer the same operating system.
I think with Unix that time might come sooner rather than later.
Larry Kilgallen
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1996-07-15 0:00 Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1996-07-17 0:00 ` wfranck
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Mark McKinney
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Pascal Martin @lone
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-08-03 0:00 ` Pascal Martin @lone
1996-07-17 0:00 ` wfranck
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Felicia R. Rosemond (214)-462-5371 ple1 SE
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Wallace E. Owen
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1996-07-15 0:00 ` Michael Levasseur
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Greg Harvey
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Kent Mitchell
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
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