From: already5chosen@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA?
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:25:31 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2016-08-24T02:25:31-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1b238492-a03f-44f2-b966-efdc6f65a106@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <npji9c$chb$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 10:27:43 AM UTC+3, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 24/08/2016 06:12, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> > On 8/23/2016 3:43 AM, Bob Broderbund wrote:
> >
> >> VMS is a good OS but it's far behind MVS and seems to be suffering from a
> >> loss of (management) direction and not enough cash. It probably started
> >> going downhill when it moved from being owned and managed end-to-end by one
> >> company to today where it is spread across two companies for software and
> >> another one or two for hardware.
> >
> > btw, It is possible now to run VMS on a PC (X86). There
> > is A.V.T company that specializes in this using
> > VirtualBox. I have not tried it
> >
> > http://www.avtware.com/vms-tru64
>
> Do they support DEC Ada?
They emulate hardware. A software is up to you.
>
> VMS was not only the best ever OS. It also had the best ever C, FORTRAN
> and Ada 83 compilers.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
Few years ago I used Ada-83 on old VMS version (5.1) running on Charon-VAX. It works, but I don't see how it is better than Gnat. My programs were rather trivial command-line utilities so it's possible that I am missing something.
Praising DEC C is strange. I think, even majority of die-hard VMSers would agree that it's not as good as just about any C compiler in wide use today,
As to Fortran, I never used it, but heard good things about it.
However it does not support modern variants of the language, which looks to me as a fatal flow.
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2016-05-02 22:51 Could you write a BSD like os in ADA? endlessboomcapitalism
2016-05-03 7:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-05-03 14:29 ` Olivier Henley
2016-05-09 20:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-05-09 20:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-05-09 22:26 ` tmoran
2016-05-10 9:45 ` G.B.
2016-05-10 10:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-05-10 10:21 ` G.B.
2016-05-10 10:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-05-10 11:10 ` G.B.
2016-05-10 11:41 ` Xavier Petit
2016-05-10 11:54 ` G.B.
2016-05-10 12:18 ` Bob Butler
2016-05-10 15:10 ` Xavier Petit
2016-05-09 21:05 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-10 22:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-05-10 23:55 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-08-21 23:31 ` endlessboomcapitalism
2016-08-22 0:18 ` Andrew Shvets
2016-08-22 5:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-08-22 8:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-08-22 9:49 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-22 23:50 ` John Smith
2016-08-23 0:04 ` Shark8
2016-08-23 8:36 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-23 8:43 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-23 9:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-08-23 13:11 ` already5chosen
2016-08-24 4:12 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2016-08-24 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-08-24 9:25 ` already5chosen [this message]
2016-08-24 12:05 ` Vincent
2016-08-24 15:10 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-25 0:20 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-08-25 16:30 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-08-28 1:06 ` VMS and C/Ada, was: " Simon Clubley
2016-08-28 7:05 ` Simon Wright
2017-03-14 10:59 ` gérard Calliet
2017-03-14 14:11 ` Simon Clubley
2017-03-14 15:15 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-03-14 17:07 ` gérard Calliet
2017-03-14 18:36 ` Simon Clubley
2017-03-14 23:12 ` gérard Calliet
2016-08-24 17:40 ` Qun-Ying
2016-08-24 18:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-08-28 1:20 ` Simon Clubley
2016-08-28 8:10 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-28 8:36 ` Simon Clubley
2016-08-28 8:55 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-28 9:31 ` Simon Clubley
2016-08-28 9:44 ` Could you write a BSD like os in Ada? Bob Broderbund
2016-08-24 9:15 ` Could you write a BSD like os in ADA? already5chosen
2016-08-24 15:11 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-24 13:00 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-08-24 15:00 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-28 1:29 ` [OT] VSI and VMS, was: " Simon Clubley
2016-08-28 8:12 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-28 8:43 ` Simon Clubley
2016-08-28 9:00 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-28 1:46 ` [OT] " Simon Clubley
2016-08-28 8:20 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-28 9:11 ` Simon Clubley
2016-08-23 12:51 ` already5chosen
2016-08-24 0:50 ` Shark8
2016-08-24 11:03 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-24 15:15 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-24 15:37 ` already5chosen
2016-08-24 15:53 ` Bob Broderbund
2016-08-24 16:37 ` already5chosen
2016-08-22 11:38 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-08-22 12:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-08-22 13:23 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-08-22 23:14 ` rieachus
2016-05-09 23:28 ` Xavier Petit
2016-05-10 15:58 ` Istvan Nagy
2016-05-12 22:18 ` phil.clayton
2016-05-14 0:57 ` Simon Clubley
2016-05-14 11:33 ` AdaMagica
2016-05-16 17:37 ` Norman Worth
2016-08-03 15:31 ` Serge Robyns
2016-08-06 23:12 ` Luke A. Guest
2016-08-25 0:00 ` rieachus
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