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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f45b1f6d53ecbae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Michael Levasseur Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada Date: 1996/07/15 Message-ID: <4se3cc$1rc@gde.GDEsystems.COM>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168878579 references: <4s8rud$9j3@tribune> <4sdggj$ksg@news.ida.org> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: GDE Systems Inc. x-url: news:4sdggj$ksg@news.ida.org mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m) Date: 1996-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: The first Rational machines had an OS written in Ada. There were some problems with the Disk Subsystem but overall the system was ahead of its time. The one thing that was most memorable about the system was that it had in excess of 300 keys. Anyone who's ever seen the old Rational System knows about their keyboard.