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: kdm@rational.com (Kent Mitchell) Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada Date: 1996/07/26 Message-ID: <4tan9j$g94@rational.rational.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170327986 references: <4s8rud$9j3@tribune> <4sdggj$ksg@news.ida.org> <4se3cc$1rc@gde.GDEsystems.COM> <01bb7a48$aa436c80$e4f068ce@zeos.rwi.com> organization: Rational Software Corporation newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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!