From: mitchell@community-chest.uucp (George Mitchell)
Subject: Re: Operating Systems in Ada
Date: 25 Oct 89 13:23:25 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <75864@linus.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8910231246.AA06300@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
In article <8910231246.AA06300@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> ecragg@GMUVAX.GMU.EDU ("EDWARD CRAGG") writes:
> The question is really whether modern software engineering practices
> and high-level languages are appropriate for writing operating systems.
> I know of three examples where they weren't--one in COBOL, one in
> Pascal, and one in CMS-2--and none where they were.
I believe that the first (and certainly not the only) success was the
Burroughs Master Control Program (MCP) written in the 70's for the B3500
(and other) processors using a proprietary version of ALGOL.
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