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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6d608a86e65c95d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-06 07:40:47 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison Sender: usenet@www.newsranger.com References: <9ai8dp$cm2$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ailip$gtr$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Ada Stuff and some confusion Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 14:39:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.208.22.130 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com X-Trace: www.newsranger.com 986567972 209.208.22.130 (Fri, 06 Apr 2001 10:39:32 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 10:39:32 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6561 Date: 2001-04-06T14:39:32+00:00 List-Id: In article , chris.danx says... >Why are AdaOS doing an NT replacement? Is it going to be a complete clone >only safer cos' it's Ada? I don't think if you program in Ada and not C, it I'm not an AdaOS member, but the impression I get from their website is that it is supposed to be a completely new (read - incompatable with anything else) OS. I'm not real sure exactly what they are trying to achieve with it. The only really intersting concrete detail I could find is that it looks like they want to build it based on CORBA components, which could make for an interesting system. If they stick to that as a principle, its OS interface should be farily unlike any other OS I've ever used. I'd be nifty to see something where users (not programmers, but users) can plug together small CORBA components to do a custom job in the same way that Unix users pipe commands through several small apps. They also talk some about making it secure and a distributed OS, but there aren't a lot of details about the distribution, and security exites me about as much as mowing the lawn... --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com