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: 103376,52df33ed7828ab9a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-13 09:44:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!hse-mtl-ppp74279.qc.sympatico.CA!not-for-mail From: Christopher Browne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS Date: 13 Aug 2002 16:44:08 GMT Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Message-ID: References: <6dfa3582.0208100016.7a066555@posting.google.com> <3D5929EE.54E47FD6@despammed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hse-mtl-ppp74279.qc.sympatico.ca (64.229.208.56) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1029257048 43359939 64.229.208.56 (16 [125932]) X-Draft-From: ("nnvirtual:Languages" 1026) X-Home-Page: http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/ X-Emacs-Acronym: Emacs Means A Crappy Screen Microsoft: Where even the version numbers aren't Y2K-compliant X-Shopping-List: (1) Diabetic atrocious fugitive removers (2) Continuous suction inversions (3) Mischievous trenchant expectations X-Uboat-Death-Message: ANNOYED BY CORVETTE 12N 12W. EXPLODING. U-482. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27983 Date: 2002-08-13T16:44:08+00:00 List-Id: Quoth Wes Groleau : >> See also FIASCO, a portable version written in C++. >> http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/ > Great name for something written in such a great language. > ?? They're from Dresden. They've had _much_ bigger fiascos there than most people would ever want to imagine. C++ is certainly not the worst thing that has ever hit them. (I seem to remember Kurt Vonnegut achieving fame for a book about one of the fiascos in Dresden...) -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@acm.org") http://cbbrowne.com/info/sap.html Sometimes if you have a cappuccino and then try again it will work OK. - Dr. Brian Reid, 1992 Sometimes one cappucino isn't enough. - Marcus J. Ranum