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From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
Date: 1996/07/22
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Michael Feldman wrote:
> 
> I agree with the other writers that there is little or no commercial
> reason for an Ada clone of an existing, supported, OS. Why reinvent
> the wheel? Why fix what isn't broken?


Well...it would plug up quite a few of UNIX's security holes.

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