Re: geese guys!

Re: geese guys!

[Richard Riehle]

John Magness wrote:

>
> But consider what a blessing Windows is to the world economy!
> Think of all the jobs created due to the requirement to continuously
> maintain all that wretched MS software.  The pager industry alone would
> be half its  present size with out the demand for on call MS
> administrators!
> John

Reminds me of the "good old days" when we needed to hire a battalion of
systems programmers
to keep an IBM OS, DOS, or other IBM mainframe system operational from one
day to the next.

Richard Riehle
AdaWorks Software Engineering
http://www.adaworks.com

Re: geese guys!

[Tarjei T. Jensen]

wv12@my-deja.com wrote in message <8q6s75$e62$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>Do not despair. The uncrashable Ada OS will run sometime this century,
>before Intel announces their 2 GHz processor.


They better be quick. This century ends on midnight, december 31st.


Greetings,

Re: geese guys!

[Ted Dennison]

In article <39C2AEF4.C882E59F@swbell.net>,
  jmagness@swbell.net wrote:
> But consider what a blessing Windows is to the world economy!
> Think of all the jobs created due to the requirement to continuously
> maintain all that wretched MS software.  The pager industry alone

I have decided that I love Windows. It just saved my butt.

Our project has a requirement to work within %50 of our hardware's CPU
and Memory capacities. I also have a requirement to continuously keep a
copy of the last 10 minutes of the run for possible replay. But we only
had enough memory to save about 4.5 minutes. I was looking at having to
write some kind of custom real-time compression algorithm, but we were
*also* butting up against our CPU limit, even with full optimization. I
designed things the best I could, but it would be *my* fault and *my*
problem to fix if things didn't fit. Talk about a no-win situation.

Microsoft to the rescue! It turns out that our Windows2K based operator
station (which uses the same hardware) was running so slowly that they
decidied they needed to upgrade everything to PIII systems with twice
the computing power and 4 times the memory. I'm saved!

I think that I'm going to have to have to go buy a copy of WindowsME
this evening, just to show Bill my appreciation. Yea, Microsoft!

Of course I'm suggesting all sorts of new ActiveX 3D features for the
operator station designers to slip in, just to be on the safe side. :-)

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Re: geese guys!

[Ted Dennison]

In article <8q736s$ibq6@news.kvaerner.com>,
  "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote:
>
> wv12@my-deja.com wrote in message <8q6s75$e62$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
> >Do not despair. The uncrashable Ada OS will run sometime this
century,
> >before Intel announces their 2 GHz processor.
>
> They better be quick. This century ends on midnight, december 31st.

Also, Intel just annouced their latest processor "roadmap", which
includes a 2Ghz processor. So depending on what you consider an
"announcement", that Ada OS would have to be done *now*, or by Q3 of
2001.


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[E. Robert Tisdale]

wv12@my-deja.com wrote:

> The uncrashable Ada OS will run sometime this century,
> before Intel announces their 2 GHz processor.

Ada is a computer programming language --
not an operating system kernel.
You can't make an operating system kernel more reliable
just by rewriting it in the Ada programming language.
Much more is required than that.
The Linux operating system kernel is very reliable.
A well designed implementation of Linux
in the Ada programming language
would still require some time to mature and stabalize.
What might really help is
an Ada like shell script language that could be used
instead of sh, ash, bash, bsh, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, etc.

Re: geese guys!

[wv12]

Do not despair. The uncrashable Ada OS will run sometime this century,
before Intel announces their 2 GHz processor.

  jmagness@swbell.net wrote
> But consider what a blessing Windows is to the world economy!
> Think of all the jobs created due to the requirement to continuously
> maintain all that wretched MS software.  The pager industry alone
would
> be half its  present size with out the demand for on call MS
> administrators!
> John
>
>


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