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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-17 19:56:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Progress on AdaOS (Was: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack.) Date: 17 Aug 2001 19:56:16 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0108171856.18631c4c@posting.google.com> References: <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <9l6pdo$rlo$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk> <9IFe7.12813$6R6.1221214@news1.cableinet.net> <9lghqu$ac6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7C3293.76F49097@home.com> <9lhefg$lgd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7D47F1.25D6FC78@boeing.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 998103377 18681 127.0.0.1 (18 Aug 2001 02:56:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Aug 2001 02:56:17 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12085 Date: 2001-08-18T02:56:17+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote in message news:<3B7D47F1.25D6FC78@boeing.com>... > GNU (GNU's Not Unix) was a project to > write an OS. They decided they needed to write a compiler first. > While the result was a very useful free compiler, it is instructive > to note that GNU never created an OS. What Jeffrey meant to say (I guess) was that "GNU never created an OS that he had heard about" [or should I say "had HURD about"?] But I am not quite sure why the fact that Jeffrey is not aware of this OS is instructive :-) :-)