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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-18 23:53:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B7F624B.7294D24F@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Progress on AdaOS (Was: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack.) References: <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <9l6pdo$rlo$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk> <9IFe7.12813$6R6.1221214@news1.cableinet.net> <9lghqu$ac6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7C3293.76F49097@home.com> <9lhefg$lgd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7D47F1.25D6FC78@boeing.com> <5ee5b646.0108171856.18631c4c@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 06:53:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.146.153 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 998204006 158.252.146.153 (Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:53:26 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:53:26 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:50:10 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12099 Date: 2001-08-19T06:53:26+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > Jeffrey Carter wrote in message news:<3B7D47F1.25D6FC78@boeing.com>... > > GNU (GNU's Not Unix) was a project to > > write an OS. They decided they needed to write a compiler first. > > While the result was a very useful free compiler, it is instructive > > to note that GNU never created an OS. > > What Jeffrey meant to say (I guess) was that "GNU never created an > OS that he had heard about" [or should I say "had HURD about"?] But > I am not quite sure why the fact that Jeffrey is not aware of this > OS is instructive :-) :-) I have heard of Hurd, but it does not seem to be the OS that GNU set out to create. Since the OS they set out to create was to be called GNU, so I don't see how Hurd could be that OS. However, I could have been more precise, and said "GNU has yet to create the OS that it set out to create.". Even if we count Hurd as GNU, the time it took the project to create Hurd may be instructive as to how long we should expect the AdaOS project to take to create AdaOS if it creates a compiler first. -- Jeff Carter "We call your door-opening request a silly thing." Monty Python & the Holy Grail