From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 21:49:25 +0200
Date: 2013-11-28T21:49:25+02:00 [thread overview]
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On 13-11-28 19:26 , Martin wrote:
> On Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:12:13 AM UTC, johannes falcone
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:10:42 AM UTC-8, johannes falcone
>> wrote:
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>> has anyone attempted a bsd ro linux ish posix ish os or even
>> something new in pure ada?
>
> I think the old Rational R1000s were written in Ada...they were
> amazing terminals with a command line OS with an Ada-like shell!
> Wonder if there are any still in use?!...
>
> -- Martin
>
There was also the Nokia MPS-10, a minicomputer with an Ada-oriented
architecture and all-Ada software. It was used by some banks in Finland.
References:
Hardware:
Pekka Lahtinen. 1982. A machine architecture for Ada. Ada Lett. II, 2
(September 1982), 28-33. DOI=10.1145/989798.989799
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/989798.989799
Insider info on software and history:
http://computer-programming-forum.com/44-ada/596b4e2f57763ce6.htm
--
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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2013-11-27 15:10 what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs? johannes falcone
2013-11-28 7:12 ` johannes falcone
2013-11-28 15:56 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2013-11-28 17:26 ` Martin
2013-11-28 18:26 ` Simon Wright
2013-11-28 19:01 ` erlo
2013-11-28 19:49 ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2013-12-05 7:21 ` johannes falcone
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