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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/13
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In article <85jd6g$9qe2@news.cis.okstate.edu>, dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:

> Another nice thing about an OS, is that Linux has gone through at least 
> three points where it was broken on different versions of the compiler 
> (bad assembly, illegal aliasing, and abuse of label addressing/inlining). 
> I don't see an Ada OS ever having a problem with abusing the standard like 
> that.

That would be a theoretical OS, but since the discussion started with
a goal of something that would be popular it seems likely people could
not resist the temptation to make it backward compatible with something
else, bringing along that baggage.

I believe the most recently originated operating system that is popular
today is MacOS, dating from 1984.  Perhaps it is OS/400, depending on
when System 34 was created.  Certainly MVS, VMS and Unix are quite a
bit older than 1984.

Larry Kilgallen