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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
Date: 1996/07/22
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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