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: 103376,345c9fcf5a67a99f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-31 01:12:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!dc1.nntp.concentric.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!newsfeed.icl.net!news-x2.support.nl!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!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: ON Topic: Ada for CP/M Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 09:58:05 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3CED2E66.DD15C13D@despammed.com> <2TvH8.1710$Np5.1619@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <3CEEA2C6.883EC224@sympatico.ca> <5ee5b646.0205250319.324e9ff8@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0205251457.788ad9b6@posting.google.com> <11ygPOFJtduS@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3CF575B0.CD59AC6C@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1022767087 6416 136.170.200.133 (30 May 2002 13:58:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 May 2002 13:58:07 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25060 Date: 2002-05-30T13:58:07+00:00 List-Id: I know there is a strong anti-Windows contingent out there, but I don't feel that strongly about it. When I first saw WinNT, I kind of concluded: "Wow! VMS in disguise.... Finally, Micro$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 -- 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" 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. >