From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost
Date: 1999/04/09
Date: 1999-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999Apr9.143759.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7el9so$geb@drn.newsguy.com
In article <7el9so$geb@drn.newsguy.com>, me@me writes:
>
> Why don't we write a brand new OS in Ada? It will be all in 100% pure
> Ada. It will be the most powerfull, most reliable, most flexible,
> 100% up-time, 24 hrs per day, 365 days per year, and runs on 1000 CPU's
> without a sweat, a kicks Ass OS, it will mnake Solaris and Linux and
> the Hurd and VMS and OS390 look like little babies in front of it.
Why some of us don't is that applications drive the operating system,
and the last successful commercial operating system that was actually
brand new was probably 16 years ago.
Windows 2000 brings along the baggage of DOS, which brought along the
baggage of CP/M. VMS brought the baggage of RSX. AS/400 brought the
baggage of System 36 and System 38.
Additionally, it seems doubtful the assembled multitude could
agree on a feature set. File versions, security constraints,
file naming, hardware platform, etc. are all sufficient to
bring to the discussion more heat than light.
> Why don't we write a brand new OS in Ada? It will be all in 100% pure
> Ada. It will be the most powerfull, most reliable, most flexible,
> 100% up-time, 24 hrs per day, 365 days per year, and runs on 1000 CPU's
> without a sweat, a kicks Ass OS, it will mnake Solaris and Linux and
> the Hurd and VMS and OS390 look like little babies in front of it.
Choice of implementation language does not give all those qualities
to an operating system. It may make achieving them easier, but it
does not even guarantee that they are possible.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-07 0:00 Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Bruce MacDonald
1999-04-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-08 0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-09 0:00 ` me
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1999-04-09 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-09 0:00 ` bill_
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Mich
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` OpenToken project announcement dennison
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Robert Dewar
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Kevin
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Harry Tanovich
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-14 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-10 0:00 ` mike
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-16 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Accessing C macro constants from Ada95 Markus Kuhn
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Jeffrey D. Cherry
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Bruce MacDonald
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Buz Cory
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
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