Re: ADA os talk (Innovate!)

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

I would agree that there is no particular point in recreating WinNT or Unix
only with an Ada implementation. I would agree that radical thinking is in
order (see earlier posts about Dodge Ram, P/T Cruiser, etc.) I'd offer only
one caveat: If the thinking is *very* radical, it could make the project
unworkable. This could either come from lack of adequate performance or just
being so far from the beaten path that nobody understands it. (Suppose Dodge
had decided to make the driver face backwards and view traffic thru a
monitor. Radical, sure! But so far from what people are used to that it
would be hard to get any acceptance.)

So think radical, (dare I say "outside the box"? :-) but subject any & all
ideas to sanity checks and proof of concept models.

MDC
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"McDoobie" <chris@dont.spam.me> wrote in message
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>
> Alot of people think in terms of Unix or Windows when they think of a
> Kernel. Why shouldn't  one do something better.
>
> I'm thinking along the lines of Plan9 or Inferno, or similar to Progeny's
> (on hold) N.O.W. Project. Ada seems ideal for this type of work.
>