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From: nospam@nospam (John Black)
Subject: Re: Can Ada by popularized faster ?
Date: 1997/10/26
Date: 1997-10-26T21:52:43+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3453bbd5.11807604@news.mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3451A98F.B3DFF971@sd.aonix.com


Fascinating.  Can anyone here tell me what language Windows/DOS was
written in?

>1. Mac OS was written in Pascal.  Even in the Mac heyday,
>Pascal was never commercially popular.

>4. The AmigaOS was written in (I think) B, or BPL,
>or something like that.  The OS was quite wonderful
>and well ahead of its time as a desktop OS.  Didn't 
>do much for the underlying language, though.




  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-10-26  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-10-16  0:00 Can Ada by popularized faster ? William A Whitaker
1997-10-25  0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-10-25  0:00   ` Larry Elmore
1997-10-30  0:00     ` TConiam
1997-10-31  0:00     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-10-25  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-10-26  0:00   ` John Black [this message]
1997-10-27  0:00     ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-10-28  0:00     ` Stanley R. Allen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-10-13  0:00 Peter Hermann
1997-10-13  0:00 ` the_walrus
1997-10-13  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-10-13  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-10-13  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-14  0:00   ` Paul H. Whittington
1997-10-09  0:00 safetran
1997-10-10  0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-10-10  0:00   ` No Spam
1997-10-10  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-16  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1997-10-10  0:00   ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1997-10-12  0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-10-13  0:00   ` Andrzej Lewandowski
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