Re: Improving Ada's Image

["Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org>]

"David Starner" <dvdeug@email.ro> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.06.25.23.58.31.317747@email.ro...

> > Are you suggesting that you would prefer a buggy/insecure
> > operating system to a secure but slower one?
>
> I'm not sure I would take a noticeable speed hit versus Linux
> for improvement of its security or crashes (which I encounter
> once every two weeks or so). It just wouldn't make enough
> difference for me. If I were running something besides a purely
> personal computer, I might analyze things differently of course.

Unfortunately it's in the nature of Usenet that some messages don't get
propagated everywhere. I didn't get Jacob's.

I can only talk about the projected design of AdaOS, which is still of
course vapourware at this time, and whose ultimate overall security design
cannot be foreseen in all its detail. However, it seems to be a general
consensus that implementing significantly more sophisticated security
functions throughout a computer system is sure to consume extra processing
resources. In fact, simple things like encryption can be the worst offenders
in this regard, but almost impossible to avoid.

As for buggyness, I think it would be hard for us to compete with the likes
of Windows of Linux, even if we tried. When AdaOS does eventually become
real, you'll just have to put up with fewer bugs. Sorry.

-- 
Nick Roberts