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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,5385624f72218ba7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-09 11:55:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!213.204.128.162!news000.worldonline.se!news-stob.telia.net!news-sto.telia.net!194.22.194.4.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Peter Hend�n" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada 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> Subject: Re: AdaOS X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 18:56:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.67.175.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1005332206 213.67.175.183 (Fri, 09 Nov 2001 19:56:46 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 19:56:46 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16167 Date: 2001-11-09T18:56:46+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > Yeah, its a Microsoftism, I believe. They also went and defined a "Harware > Emulation Layer". For some reason, no one wants to program it. I'm not so certain it's a MS-ism. I know the topic was discussed in the early 80's, and I doubt that there was any MS products anywhere near. Possibly it was a DEC-ism in those days. Anyhow, the concept has been adopted by Cygwin (eCos) and some real-time linux projects. /Peter H. -- Peter Hend�n http://www.algonet.se/~phenden/ ICQ: 14672398 Teknisk Dokumentation AB http://www.tdab.com/