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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>
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In article <cScfJwUl$Roy@eisner.encompasserve.org>, "Larry Kilgallen"
<Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam> wrote:


> It would certainly be practical, but the initial creation would not be
> any cheaper than creating a new operating system in _any_ language.

However, we'd all like to think that the even-more-expensive task of
*maintaining* an OS would be cheaper if the OS were developed in Ada.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas