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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-25 11:22:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!not-for-mail From: David Starner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Progress on AdaOS Date: 25 Aug 2001 17:11:24 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9m8m7s$9qe1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <9IFe7.12813$6R6.1221214@news1.cableinet.net> <9lghqu$ac6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7C3293.76F49097@home.com> <9lhefg$lgd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7D47F1.25D6FC78@boeing.com> <5ee5b646.0108171856.18631c4c@posting.google.com> <3B7F624B.7294D24F@acm.org> <9lr6je$5hj$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ltoi7$4is$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B82789B.8D195045@home.com> <9ltuo8$70n$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B829450.879B0396@home.com> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e5129.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12416 Date: 2001-08-25T17:11:24+00:00 List-Id: On 24 Aug 2001 20:31:15 -0500, Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <9m6isb$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu>, David Starner writes: > > Thus Linux wasn't it. I never saw BeOS or NexT -- perhaps they were it. I don't know what you consider major significant changes. From what I've read of NeXT, it was distinctly a Unix that's been mostly eclipsed by Linux. I've played a little with BeOS; it's a very nice system that's fairly distinct from other systems. It's not _quite_ dead yet - I believe you can still download a full personal version for ix86 from BeOS, if you have a Windows or Linux system sitting around. (See free.be.com). The API is C++; I don't know if you'll consider that better or worse than the more common C APIs. >> (The general public is _never_ in the mood to play with a new OS.) (For >> an analogy, would you buy a car where you steered with your feet? > > Yes, but for some of us, Unix is like steering with your feet. > I understand that David feels the opposite. My point is not > to win him over, but to point out there is no unanimity. There's no unanimity in computer people. The only numbers for VMS I could find on the WWW was a "hundreds of thousands" of users. Is there any non-Unix, non-Windows, non-Macintosh OSs out there bigger than VMS? Linux has 8 to 10 million users, Mac has probably three times that, and Windows probably has at least a couple hundred million users. Over 99.4% is pretty close to unanimity among the general public. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg