Re: ON Topic: Ada for CP/M

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

I know there is a strong anti-Windows contingent out there, but I don't feel
that strongly about it. When I first saw WinNT, I kind of concluded: "Wow!
VMS in disguise.... Finally, Micro$oft has a *real* operating system" I
promptly dumped my broken Mac laptop and bought a PC with NT. (I wouldn't
own a PC until Intel finally got around all that silly segmented address
space stuff by making really huge segments! The M680x0 in the Mac never
presented those sorts of limitations.)

Now one can stand here all day and complain about "NT-this" and "NT-that"
and "Linux is better" and so on and so on, but at least NT provided all the
facilities one would expect from a "real" operating system. Compared to the
MS-DOS based versions of Windows and (most, at least) Macintosh operating
systems - all of which I considered "toy" operating systems - you had WinNT
finally looking like the kind of thing one would expect for a workstation or
larger computer. There may be *better* OS's out there but at least I can
take NT and its descendents seriously.

And it usually seems to work fine in supporting Ada compilers, so I consider
it an adequate platform for developing Ada software. (How's that for making
sure to bring it back on topic? :-)

MDC
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Marin David Condic
Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
e-Mail:    marin.condic@pacemicro.com


"Darren New" <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3CF575B0.CD59AC6C@san.rr.com...
> Marin David Condic wrote:
> > You would be suggesting that Windows does not qualify as an Operating
> > System? I've heard it described as a Computer Virus with a GUI
Interface.
>
> And, of course, it depends on *which* "Windows" you're talking about.
While
> it's arguable that Win3.1 (say)  might not be what folks would consider an
> "operating system" (altho, funny enough, nobody complained that CP/M
wasn't
> an operating system), Win2K certainly is an operating system.
>