From: kdm@rational.com (Kent Mitchell)
Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
Date: 1996/07/26
Date: 1996-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4tan9j$g94@rational.rational.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bb7a48$aa436c80$e4f068ce@zeos.rwi.com
Greg Harvey (gharvey@rwi.com) wrote:
: This of course prevented what little programming that WAS done on the
: Rational from getting done in any reasonable time frame, which pushed
: people onto Unix and PC boxes for development and compiling. Rational
: caused the demise of their own machine by supporting documentation on it.
Well ... this is not exactly true. While the SSE document generation didi
drag a whole machine, they were far and away some of the most complicated
documents I've ever seen (and worthless for any real purpose other than
satisfying a contractual obligation). Most of our customers were quite
successfull using our documentation generation capabilites. It's not
what "caused the demise of (our) machine".
The machines went away because Rational could not afford to keep up with
the IBM, Sun and Intel's of the world on hardware performance. That
coupled with the demand for open systems was too great for a
custom hardware/software solution to fly. I think our Apex solution is
superior to our old systems *and* on standard hardware/os.
--
Kent Mitchell | One possible reason that things aren't
Technical Consultant | going according to plan is .....
Rational Software Corporation | that there never *was* a plan!
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1996-07-13 0:00 Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada Mark McKinney
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Mark Eichin
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2019-03-02 16:07 ` Optikos
2019-03-03 22:14 ` russ lyttle
1996-07-15 0:00 ` David Wheeler
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Michael Levasseur
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Greg Harvey
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Kent Mitchell [this message]
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Randy Greene
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
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2019-01-10 23:54 ` Lucretia
2019-04-07 1:55 ` Nick Roberts
2019-04-07 4:32 ` Optikos
2019-04-07 10:35 ` Nick Roberts
2019-04-07 14:06 ` Optikos
2019-01-14 11:26 ` George Shapovalov
2019-02-25 2:25 ` russ lyttle
2019-03-09 18:43 ` Norman Worth
2019-02-25 21:56 ` Rabican
2019-02-26 8:46 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-02-26 9:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-26 23:32 ` lyttlec
2019-02-27 2:00 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-02-27 6:20 ` russ lyttle
2019-02-27 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-27 13:54 ` russ lyttle
2019-02-27 15:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-27 16:46 ` russ lyttle
2019-02-27 23:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-02-27 8:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-27 14:06 ` russ lyttle
2019-02-27 14:23 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-02-27 16:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-27 17:04 ` russ lyttle
2019-02-27 17:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-09 18:46 ` Norman Worth
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1996-07-15 0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1996-07-17 0:00 ` wfranck
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Mark McKinney
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Pascal Martin @lone
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
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