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: 2001-04-05 18:18:43 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!216.227.56.88.MISMATCH!telocity-west!TELOCITY!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttls1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mark Lundquist" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9ai8dp$cm2$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ailip$gtr$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Ada Stuff and some confusion X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 01:18:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.66.55 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttls1.wa.home.com 986519923 24.20.66.55 (Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:18:43 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:18:43 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6541 Date: 2001-04-06T01:18:43+00:00 List-Id: chris.danx wrote in message news:Pb6z6.5897$%W5.648159@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com... > Hi, > > > I was playing off of "Unix". (Also off of an Americanism about retiring to > > write "The Great American Novel" - like Mobey Dick.) Not entirely without > > some seriousness in there. If you're looking for a name, I'd shoot for > > something a little sexier and different. > > Funnyly we are looking for a name. Hermann, my OS development partner, I know, you guys could go for like a personality-cult type thing and call it: "Hermix"! wait... been done already. :-) :-) > > > But they seem to be shooting for something more along the > > lines of a WinNT replacement & that's not my interest. > > I don't think NT is a good system You're right -- it sucks > I also don't rate Unix/Linux much either Sadly, you're right about that too :-/ > NT is a hybrid microkernel and has some nice features > but it's still has many faults and shouldn't be modelled by anyone. strongly agree... >[...] > You might just contribute to the project that could make windows look like > the Dinosaur of the OS world. If you ask me, Windohs *already* looks like the Dinosaur of the OS World... Thank you for reading my completely worthless post :-) Cheers, Mark Lundquist