From: chittamu@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Satish Kumar .C)
Subject: Re: writing operating systems in ADA
Date: 23 Oct 89 00:45:28 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6991@ingr.com
In article <6991@ingr.com> phil@ingr.UUCP (Phil Johnson) writes:
>Intel attemped to build an Ada-based machine (using Ada to write the operating
>system) but found that it was pretty much a wash. The restricted lexical
>elements could not support general languages which used characters not allowed
>in Ada (APL comes to mind - ain't no Thumbnail in Ada). I do not have any
>references to the Intel machine, but perhaps someone on the net does.
I believe the Microprocessor that Intel developed as an Ada based
machine was the iAPX 432. You might want to check on that though. I
have been told (but I make no guarantee) that there was an article in
IEEE computer sometime around mid 1985.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1989-10-23 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1989-10-19 1:34 writing operating systems in ADA Dale R. Wyttenbach
1989-10-20 16:41 ` Phil Johnson
1989-10-21 16:42 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-22 13:06 ` Karl Nyberg
1989-10-22 15:42 ` David Farber
1989-10-22 22:57 ` Jerome_V_Vollborn
1989-10-23 0:45 ` Satish Kumar .C [this message]
1989-10-24 17:17 ` R. Kannan
1989-11-01 16:38 ` David Schneider
1989-10-23 17:06 ` Tom Quiggle @sation
1989-10-24 13:30 ` callen
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox