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: 2001-08-26 03:22:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.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: 26 Aug 2001 07:51:00 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9ma9p4$aik1@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> <9m0d08$51j$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B83DE1A.7770DC9C@home.com> <9m0rc6$ak0$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B83F894.D7082F9A@home.com> <9m12li$db7$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9m1u2m$baq2@news.cis.okstate.edu> <9m3ifu$bri$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9m494u$9ic1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3B867FE4.F4C7A687@lmtas.lmco.com> <3B87DE27.5BCF9863@lmtas.lmco.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:12425 Date: 2001-08-26T07:51:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:19:35 -0500, Gary Scott wrote: > Most certainly. My goal is to resurrect some of the wonderful > capabilities of OS' past that UNIX fails miserably at. The most > important one would be real-time control (although far from an ideal OS, > I long for the absolute real-time control and determinism of VOS > (something VMS lacked as well)). I also long for consistency of design > philosophy rather than the compilation of inconsistently designed grad > student senior projects that is UNIX (and DOS/Win since they are also > highly UNIX centric). However, my all time favorite OS is VM (not that > VM is a real-time OS). You can actually run over 50000 independent > guest copies of Linux VMs within VM in one recent IBM test before > interactive (character mode) performance begins to suffer (I think that > was under Z/VM). But what's your goal? Who are you expecting to use this operating system? For any desktop system, real-time control is mostly pointless; is it really a tragedy that my mp3's skip sometimes? Is absolute real-time control really the solution to that? Running n guest copies of Linux under it is really pointless for a desktop system. At best, I need one, as an emulator. -- 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