From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
Subject: Re: writing operating systems in ADA
Date: 21 Oct 89 16:42:01 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6842@hubcap.clemson.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6991@ingr.com
From article <6991@ingr.com>, by phil@ingr.com (Phil Johnson):
> 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.
However, a joint venture between Intel and Siemens (Biin) has
has considerably better results: Biin markets multiprocessor
systems designed for high-performance online transaction processing,
and their Biin/OS operating system is written entirely in Ada, as
are most system services. Reference: 1-800-252-Biin in North America,
(49) 911 5219 0 in Europe.
Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
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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 [this message]
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
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
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