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: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-08 16:31:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.airnews.net!cabal12.airnews.net!usenet From: "John R. Strohm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died) Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 18:16:52 -0500 Organization: Airnews.net! at Internet America Message-ID: References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <82347202.0305021418.4719da45@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305060521.400f1d80@posting.google.com> <82347202.0305061103.2ddd98e4@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305070504.6866e7a3@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305070929.2d7a0d4c@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305080606.70eebec@posting.google.com> Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63354 comp.object:63031 comp.lang.ada:37087 misc.misc:14026 Date: 2003-05-08T18:16:52-05:00 List-Id: X-A-Notice: References line has been trimed due to 512 byte limitation Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at airmail.net to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library1-aux.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Thu, 08 May 2003 18:27:47 -0500 (CDT) NNTP-Posting-Host: !\THX1k-VKme$@< (Encoded at Airnews!) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 "soft-eng" wrote in message news:9fa75d42.0305080606.70eebec@posting.google.com... > PC's don't show this. CP/M and MS/DOS etc were written > in assembler, and the field was open for other languages. Unfortunately, the facts do not agree with you. CP/M was written in PL/M, a variant of PL/I developed by Dr. Gary Kildall. The exact genesis of MS-DOS is not completely known. It is known that it started out as QDOS from Seattle Computer Products. Anecdotal evidence exists to show that QDOS was a mechanical translation (translation: "theft") of CP/M to 8086, with some hand fixups. Supposedly (as the story goes), a Digital Research lawsuit against Microsoft was settled VERY quickly, with Digital Research receiving MUCH money *AND* the right to clone MS-DOS, when Gary Kildall typed a "secret code" into an MS-DOS PC and let the Microsoft attorneys read the Digital Research copyright notice that was still embedded deep inside MS-DOS. (Such "secret codes" were quite common in those days. They persist, as "Easter Eggs", today.)