From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.159.35.107 with SMTP id 98mr1377060uae.8.1472030732436; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:25:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.44.69 with SMTP id f63mr108001otb.2.1472030732332; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!j37no10334927qta.0!news-out.google.com!d68ni37444ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no12546687ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:25:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.219.244.2; posting-account=ow8VOgoAAAAfiGNvoH__Y4ADRwQF1hZW NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.219.244.2 References: <79e591f0-3c3e-42b2-ad1f-3e59a031531e@googlegroups.com> <94756e03-7788-4032-a70b-3a0468fc3af9@googlegroups.com> <2b473012-b01e-4c46-add5-048889bf20df@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1b238492-a03f-44f2-b966-efdc6f65a106@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA? From: already5chosen@yahoo.com Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:25:32 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31533 Date: 2016-08-24T02:25:31-07:00 List-Id: 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.