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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote:
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>One thing the world does *not* need is another Unix variant. If the
>objective were to reproduce Linux only in Ada, what's the point? Why make
>something that has an identical look and feel all the way to its core and
>then just be another "me too!" player? Its already been done and redone - go
>do something different!

And to quote Chuck Moore, the father of Forth: megabytes OS are not a fatality.

A brand new OS needs not be a giant one.