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: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-23 14:25:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!148.122.208.68!news2.oke.nextra.no!nextra.com!news1.oke.nextra.no.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B8573EB.488BADDB@online.no> From: Tore Lund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of References: <3B834E5D.B0D26AB1@adaworks.com> <9lvsic$bet9s$1@ID-9852.news.dfncis.de> <0sDnZRVkz5qL@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3b83847d.1117251944@news.worldonline.nl> <3B83F498.E0F6C582@timesys.com> <7aTg7.10919$2u.78544@www.newsranger.com> <3B842DEA.E01CA1BE@timesys.com> <5M7h7.11864$2u.82854@www.newsranger.com> <3B85294F.BB780B7F@timesys.com> <9m3cbh$dvu$3@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 148.122.153.122 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@nextra.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:24:41 MET DST Organization: Nextra Public Access X-Trace: readme.online.no 998601881 148.122.153.122 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:21:47 +0200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12360 comp.lang.c:76562 comp.lang.c++:85287 comp.lang.functional:7671 Date: 2001-08-23T23:21:47+02:00 List-Id: Markus Mottl wrote: > > Add these costs to the price of buying an off-the-shelve general-purpose > OS and compare the result to the price of a real time OS for this > specific purpose. Voila, your decision criterion for when to buy what > kind of OS. QNX is real-time, off-the-shelf and general-purpose, as well as POSIX-compliant. (At least according to QNX blurb.) Has anyone considered QNX for use on warships...? -- Tore