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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/12
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In article <387C8CB3.1276637F@icn.siemens.de>,
  Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de> wrote:

> want write a free OS/2 clone. They decided to use C (what else :-( ).
> But as the project is still in a very early phase, I think about
> whether we should participate and try to revise the decision to use
> Ada instead. This could be a chance to push Ada. What do you think
> about ?

I think they'd be way better off using Ada for a project of that scale.
Bit I don't particularly pine for my old OS-2 system.

There is an Ada-based OS project of sorts underway on the AdaPower site.

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