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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Operating System in Ada (was Ada --> C Translation)
Date: 1998/10/12
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In article <philip-ya02408000R1210980953070001@news.cs.uwa.edu.au>, philip@cs.uwa.edu.au (PC) writes:
> Hello,
> 
>> How about I hate guessing. I will wait for a an Ada OS to come along. 
>> Linux is (used to be anyway ) a one man project. Surely an OS can't be that
>> hard to build.
> 
> That's actually an interesting proposal... anyone undertaken a OS written
> completely in Ada yet?

The operating system that most people would think about copying first
is Unix -- and that seems like a non-starter from its anti-Ada interfaces
(null-terminated strings and the like).  Yes it is possible to interact,
but it is not in the "spirit" of Ada.

What was the last totally new operating system to achieve prominence ?
I suppose it was MS-DOS or MacOS.  VMS, Unix, VM etc. all seem older.

Larry Kilgallen