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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:03:49 +0000
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Shark8 wrote:

|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|"[..]                                                      |
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|[..] they probably get intimidated by                      |
|the sheer amount of work needing to be done for an OS. [..]|
|[..]"                                                      |
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In at least one case something worse and not specific to developing an
operating system terminated or indefinitely paused one of these
projects, but I leave it to the man involved to decide whether or not
to post about it to the newsgroup.