Re: Ada Operating System

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

Fair enough. My point was just that Linux (in whatever early or later forms)
at one time didn't exist. (Same for Windows, Unix, MacOS, VMS, etc. etc.
etc.) It had to come into existance and find some following by satisfying
some need that wasn't being filled adequately by something else. Hence,
there is reason to believe that should some Ada operating system emerge at
some point, it too might find some following and utilization.

Sometimes these sorts of things are invested in by a larger company (or
other entity - like the government or a university) because they need some
particular capability or think there is some market out there. Sometimes
projects get built by hobyists or a university professor or students or
whomever to satisfy some curiosity, or to have fun or to go tilting at
windmills. However it gets there, if it offers something useful to the rest
of the world and is made available in a manner that is accessible (free or
at least affordable) by some large segment of the potential users, it will
likely meet with some success. That's why I think an OS written in Ada that
did some minimal useful stuff could work & find acceptance.

Of course we'll never know if we never try. :-)

MDC
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"David Starner" <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote in message
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>
> It was a free Unix system for the x86, which a lot of people were
> hungering for, especially after the problems with Minix and BSD. It also
> came with a decent selection of GNU utils for application to start with.
>