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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.191.103 with SMTP id gx7mr18914329pac.37.1471910658767; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:04:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.17.86 with SMTP id p22mr1275459otp.9.1471910658708; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!f6no12138226ith.0!news-out.google.com!d130ni43788ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no12138218ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:04:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2b473012-b01e-4c46-add5-048889bf20df@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=174.28.146.45; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.28.146.45 References: <79e591f0-3c3e-42b2-ad1f-3e59a031531e@googlegroups.com> <94756e03-7788-4032-a70b-3a0468fc3af9@googlegroups.com> <2b473012-b01e-4c46-add5-048889bf20df@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA? From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:04:18 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Received-Bytes: 2327 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1467737319 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31508 Date: 2016-08-22T17:04:18-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 5:50:22 PM UTC-6, John Smith wrote: > On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 5:49:07 AM UTC-4, Bob Broderbund wrote: > > On 2016-08-22, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > > > On 22/08/2016 07:01, J-P. Rosen wrote: > > >> Le 22/08/2016 ?? 02:18, Andrew Shvets a ??crit : > > >>> What would you consider to be a well designed operating system? > > >> > > >> VMS! :-) > > > > > > Yes, VMS was likely the best OS ever. > > > > Close.. try another permutation of the same letters! > > > > Hint: it's the oldest OS still in development and production, and processes > > 95% or more of the world's financial transactions. > > > > > But designing a new OS I would consider doing it really new. No I/O, no > > > files, only memory mapped persistent properly typed objects. > > > > The problem then is getting applications to run on it. > > > > Bob > > What's that? MVS, maybe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS