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: 103376,76da32d8c4934801 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Operating System in Ada (was Ada --> C Translation) Date: 1998/10/12 Message-ID: <6vtbl9$htn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 400230696 References: <6vobnk$vt9$1@jupiter.cs.uml.edu> <6vp23h$hc3$1@jupiter.cs.uml.edu> <1998Oct12.072036.1@eisner> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x7.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Oct 12 16:44:25 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1998-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1998Oct12.072036.1@eisner>, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote: > What was the last totally new operating system to achieve prominence ? > I suppose it was MS-DOS or MacOS. VMS, Unix, VM etc. all seem older. I'd say WindowsNT, but I suppose it all depends on your definition of "totally new" and "prominence". One could certainly argue against NT based on its Windows and VMS influences. Of course, if NT doesn't count, then MS-DOS shouldn't either. -- T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own