Re: Ada Operating System

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote:

> Yeah. You could do that. You could take the Linux code and add just about
> any ideas you wanted to add and not have to build an OS from bottom dead
> center.
> 
> But that was not the point I was trying to make. The point was: "If you want
> to write an OS in Ada because you like Ada and want to help promote the use
> of Ada then including features/capabilities not found in other OS's would
> help make this hypothetical OS attractive to some segment of the market and
> help promote its use."
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> Marin David Condic
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> "Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:3C8CCA42.4080506@mail.com...
> 
>>If you're just talking about adding some privacy
>>feature to an OS, I don't see much point in writing
>>a new OS from scratch just to get that feature. Why
>>not just add it to an existing OS?

To address security properly, ie. securely, requires that you
examine all aspects of the interaction with the O/S and exposed
interfaces. Otherwise, you are in the precarious position that
Microsoft is in now, trying to close up all the holes that keep
being discovered faster than they can close them. Security does
not work well in the "bag on the side" manner.
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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