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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,55958fd991db66fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-31 06:54:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:54:33 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3D70CA98.48CB90A6@acm.org> References: <3D628304.3040506@cogeco.ca> <3d6e9cb6.75108980@news.cis.dfn.de> <3d702ed8.178070049@news.cis.dfn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b2.4a Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 31 Aug 2002 13:54:51 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (WinNT; I) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28625 Date: 2002-08-31T13:54:51+00:00 List-Id: Well, there you have it. Since lots of servers depend on tasks/threads for the mechanism of communicating with clients, being able to add processors and increase performance is a serious advantage. You can get there now I'm sure, but at what level of difficulty? Having it happen automagically is something people will like. MDC -- ============================================================= Marin David Condic - Pace Micro - http://www.pacemicro.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ============================================================= Nick Roberts wrote: > >Especially to the extent that it can exploit Ada tasking as a distribution > >mechanism ... > > I'm glad you have seen that point. I think it is a very significant one. > There is currently a hot market in Internet servers, for e-business and > many other purposes. These still all work on software that is very > primitive (e.g. vulnerable to buffer overrun vulnerabilities), and I see > this as one potential ouvre for AdaOS. > > -- ============================================================= Marin David Condic - Pace Micro - http://www.pacemicro.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] =============================================================