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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,985762be6fa32f22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Nick Roberts" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's Image Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:12:28 +0100 Message-ID: <2k50gdF17acumU1@uni-berlin.de> References: <2k06c5F16ql15U2@uni-berlin.de> X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 6RwtKOzli4rj5a/2Yzrn5QRHzmXRdewqiW36CjIPXeArO2qDo= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1914 Date: 2004-06-26T11:12:28+01:00 List-Id: "David Starner" 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