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 10.36.112.144 with SMTP id f138mr16570917itc.6.1471909820958; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:50:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.9.106 with SMTP id 97mr1276195otp.7.1471909820935; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:50:20 -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!f6no12162556ith.0!news-out.google.com!d130ni43805ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no12162549ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:50:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2601:18f:900:8350:453d:87a5:de7c:1786; posting-account=AvekzAoAAABj-TclKcOWQmXwA49MFPGX NNTP-Posting-Host: 2601:18f:900:8350:453d:87a5:de7c:1786 References: <79e591f0-3c3e-42b2-ad1f-3e59a031531e@googlegroups.com> <94756e03-7788-4032-a70b-3a0468fc3af9@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <2b473012-b01e-4c46-add5-048889bf20df@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA? From: John Smith Injection-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 23:50:20 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31507 Date: 2016-08-22T16:50:20-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 5:49:07 AM UTC-4, Bob Broderbund wrote: > On 2016-08-22, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > > On 22/08/2016 07:01, J-P. Rosen wrote: > >> Le 22/08/2016 ?? 02:18, Andrew Shvets a ??crit : > >>> What would you consider to be a well designed operating system? > >> > >> VMS! :-) > > > > Yes, VMS was likely the best OS ever. > > Close.. try another permutation of the same letters! > > Hint: it's the oldest OS still in development and production, and processes > 95% or more of the world's financial transactions. > > > But designing a new OS I would consider doing it really new. No I/O, no > > files, only memory mapped persistent properly typed objects. > > The problem then is getting applications to run on it. > > Bob What's that?