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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5385624f72218ba7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-12 13:08:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaOS Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:29:22 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9spbf4$i7l$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9r8pvf$vms$1@papyrus.erlm.siemens.de> <9rk11n$e4n$1@plutonium.btinternet.com> <9rk749$ndt$1@papyrus.erlm.siemens.de> <9rnid9$541$1@neptunium.btinternet.com> <9s3u20$10s0sv$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9s670f$u2e$1@papyrus.erlm.siemens.de> <9s74eb$12b2bq$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9s76dh$ls0$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9s9413$11mrei$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <071120011028298704%philip@no-spam.cs.uwa.edu.au> <9scke6$12jb14$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <3BF019F4.C9C460E5@mida.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1005596964 18677 136.170.200.133 (12 Nov 2001 20:29:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Nov 2001 20:29:24 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16370 Date: 2001-11-12T20:29:24+00:00 List-Id: I wonder why that was? It seems to me that a portable operating system that ran on a variety of hardware would be a *good* thing for business. (Some businesses.) What got in the way of - say - making it work on a Sun? A portable operating system with a portable language ought to be good for someone who is marketing software, don't you think? Write-once, Compile-many? But then, if that were true, Ada with an Ada OS ought to be a marketable concept - yet it doesn't seem to gain much traction? What is the downside? Possibly that other players would then be able to easily develop to the same platforms and a Really Big Software Business might want to make it hard for other players to do ports to all kinds of hardware? (They, having more resources, might have an advantage trying to port to a dozen platforms while a small company might not.) Still doesn't seem to add up, given that I don't know that Microsoft is seriously playing in the Sun/Sparc arena, for example, so why try to keep small competitors out? And making your OS work on Sun hardware seems to just make an inroad into new business. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:mWVH7.22092$xS6.34190@www.newsranger.com... > > The device drivers and the NT kernel both. I think they went with that design > because they were initially planning on porting NT to a great number of > platforms, and they didn't want to have to make changes all over the OS every > time that was done. However, they only ever had ports for 3 platforms, and they > soon dropped one of those.