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-Thread: 103376,f49c8f164340c377 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Current status of Ada? References: <1187726191.464593.16480@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> From: Markus E L Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:23:41 +0200 Message-ID: <7y3ay1z5g2.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vwxXNQohxJf8YmIdmTrRWBUDo7g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.225.167 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1188468686 88.72.225.167 (30 Aug 2007 12:11:26 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!news.unit0.net!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1610 Date: 2007-08-30T12:23:41+02:00 List-Id: > Many companies outside of the United States of America are running > operating systems which had been created before DOS. At least one of > the banks I am a customer of, for example. At the desktop? > You seem to be under the misimpression that what you call "LINUX" is > an operating system. Dynamically linked binaries for one GNU/Linux > distribution are extremely unlikely to work for another GNU/Linux "Extremely unlikely" is wrong, I think, especially for binaries that have been compiled with the explicit aim to run on multiple Linux distros. E.g. Open office and Nozilla have binary packages that run on a wide range of current distributions. > distribution. They are different operating systems. Many things for > Microsoft Windows 98 will not run on Microsoft NT 3.51, but their > level of binary compatibility is far more than is common between > GNU/Linux distributions. s/far// That at least is true. But there is also less necessity for binary compatibility in Linux than in the closed source world. > With any of GNU/Linux and Microsoft, a company would need to employ > someone who is competent at maintaining an installation, whose salary > would make the price of a Microsoft operating system insignificant. Absolut nonsense. Furthermore people who need a full time employee to maintain a Linux installation wuite likely need also someone to run their windows installations. > At home, the operating system I mainly use is Microsoft DOS version > 5. The money which was paid for it in the 1990s was for a permanent > license and I do not need to buy new software and hardware for it. It > works better than any of the other operating systems you mentioned in > this thread. What does "work better" mean? Does it have better virtual memory management? Does ist run picture processing programs like Gimp or photo shop? Etc ... Regards -- Markus