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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5bcf30769d6d9599 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-27 07:04:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B8A5358.8565099A@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA os talk References: <20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk> <9mcl59$rn0$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:04:08 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.135.96 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 998921059 151.168.135.96 (Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:04:19 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:04:19 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12462 Date: 2001-08-27T09:04:08-05:00 List-Id: > OTOH, you could write desktop applications and games that would run > anywhere, you would be more likely to actually complete them than you > would an OS, you would get usable versions to the public in 1/10 the > time, and (assuming you're talking about free software) you could pick > something that would fill an empty niche rather than competing with one > that is already well established. And then when AdaOS - or some other new OS - comes out, we could demonstrate how portable is good Ada code. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau