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From: phil@ingr.com (Phil Johnson)
Subject: Re: writing operating systems in ADA
Date: 20 Oct 89 16:41:53 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6991@ingr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 16422@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU

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.



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  reply	other threads:[~1989-10-20 16:41 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
1989-10-21 16:42   ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
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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