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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-09 16:09:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!isdnet!wanadoo.fr!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!psiuk-p2!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: Ada Operating System Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 09:43:24 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3c77b476.322111671@news.cis.dfn.de> <3C88E0D1.89161C16@despammed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1015685006 21775 136.170.200.133 (9 Mar 2002 14:43:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Mar 2002 14:43:26 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:20997 Date: 2002-03-09T14:43:26+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- 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/ "David Starner" wrote in message news:a6clko$8i41@news.cis.okstate.edu... > > 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. >