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-Thread: 103376,985762be6fa32f22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40DDDBE0.1080207@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's Image References: <2k06c5F16ql15U2@uni-berlin.de> <40DC0CA6.5040704@noplace.com> <06OtmLncSDdl@eisner.encompasserve.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:26:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.24.242 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1088281616 209.165.24.242 (Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:26:56 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:26:56 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1936 Date: 2004-06-26T20:26:56+00:00 List-Id: I think that people didn't flock to VMS itself for reasons other than security. Like price an portability. DEC had a history of developing really wonderful things and then snatching defeat from the jaws of victory with bad marketing plans. If VMS ran on a PC (and other platforms besides DEC equipment) and it was available for what people tend to pay for a Windows or Linux installation (near nothing in many cases) it might have stood a chance. Even if VMS only ran on an Alpha, but you could at least buy one for around a grand (like you can with a lower end PC) and it came with all the end-user features one typically finds available on a PC - or can readily be obtained for a PC at a rational cost - it might have been a contender. But the Adult Supervision at DEC had other ideas - and where are they now? MDC Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > VMS (not written in Ada) is considerably more secure than more popular > operating systems. If someone magically rewrote VMS in Ada, even if > that made it more secure than it already is, VMS users would not flock > to it. > > The notion of people flocking to a significantly more reliable operating > system has not been proven. -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================