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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/18
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:19:41 GMT, Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> wrote:
>"Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote:
>
>> /* snip */
>> So the message is: Get some good applications and tools written in Ada before
>> comitting to an operating system.
>>
>> /*snip */
>
>I don't see why the tools need to be in Ada, merely because the OS is.  If the OS
>supports the Linux interfaces
              ^^^^^ Posix interfaces. 
>(as I expect Debian's Hurd will) 
Actually the Hurd is continously having problems for funky features -
no pathname limit is a legal Posix option, but not one that Linux
supports, or any major Unix supports. The Hurd doesn't support Linux
interfaces; it supports Posix interfaces. Any new OS that has any plans
of being Unix-like should do the same.
>be freely shared among the two (three) operating systems.  


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David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
If you wish to strive for peace of soul then believe; 
if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
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