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: 103376,7ae711c481a7059 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-10 07:37:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!207.217.77.102!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Can I treat Current_Output as a file of bytes? Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:37:04 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: References: <20021104233454.2042ef78.bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> <20021108010337.395c1a90.bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> <8qGdDEJ$BoYu@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b7.a0 X-Server-Date: 10 Nov 2002 15:37:31 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30683 Date: 2002-11-10T15:37:31+00:00 List-Id: A simple duplication of VMS would really be as pointless as a simple duplication of Linux. Any proposed Ada OS ought to endeavor to be something "New" and incorporate some fresh ideas or it doesn't have any sort of product distinction. I just think that if someone is going to go duplicate something, at least pick something really worth emulating. It would probably be fairly easy to maintain some sort of basic compilable-level compatibility with Linux. You'd just need to make sure that the OS supported some set of primitives that would make it possible to translate a Linux program into one that would work on the new OS. (If you don't have Posix calls at least make it possible to create a thick binding that would provide Posix calls.) I'd imagine that some kind of GUI-level compatibility would not be hard to achieve so long as it had a unique "Look & Feel" to it. Probably setting a goal of "Easy to port" would be reasonable. Binary compatibility is probably a waste of time as you'd just end up with a work-alike system and that's not providing something "New" MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ====================================================================== Preben Randhol wrote in message news:slrnasqa7u.qs.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no... > > http://www.openvms.org/ ? > > I don't want a rewrite of Linux in Ada. I would want something better. > It would be nice *if* the OS is intended for desktop, to be able to run > the applications of Linux. If it is a server OS, then it would be better > if it was made to run forever and withstand cracking attempts. Not that > the two are mutually exclusive. >