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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-09 07:40:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.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!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C8A2CDB.D8E1B4AA@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.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 Operating System References: <3c77b476.322111671@news.cis.dfn.de> <3C88E0D1.89161C16@despammed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:40:11 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1015688432 151.168.144.162 (Sat, 09 Mar 2002 09:40:32 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 09:40:32 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20975 Date: 2002-03-09T10:40:11-05:00 List-Id: > Well, by that reasoning, Linux should have never been able to get going. > From bottom dead center, it had no useful apps or geek appeal or robustness. Good point! OTOH, it did have _some_ geek appeal--the idea of an open source, no cost operating system. And of course, AdaOS would have the same appeal--were it not for the fact that it's written in "the dreaded Ada" > Maybe I'm not so pessimistic about the possibilities. One thing is > absolutely certain - if one starts with an attitude of "It'll never work, > its doomed to fail, there's no hope..." then guaranteed it won't happen. True again. I have always laughed at the "no user-serviceable parts inside" stickers. As a result, I've fixed a few things that supposedly can't be fixed. (Made a few worse, too, but came out ahead overall.) -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau