what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?

what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?

[johannes falcone]

Re: what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?

[johannes falcone]

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?

Re: what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?

[Marius Amado-Alves]

On Thursday, 28 November 2013 07:12:13 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?

Please write in English.

Re: what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?

[Martin]

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

Re: what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?

[Simon Wright]

Martin <martin@thedowies.com> writes:

> 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?
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> 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?!...

ISTR they were Emacs-based; presumably this was Emacs with the core
re-written in Ada ...

The Emacs geekiness was to some extent hidden on the Facit terminals by
having multiple rows of function keys and an amazing overlay, so you
didn't have to know that M-C-S-cokebottle was bound to
'compile-current-buffer' (actually, I think that would have been
'semanticize-current-buffer', woo for jargon).

Most of my R1000 programming was done on a Sun 3-50 using a 150-mile
network connection to the actual computer; I can't remember how the
editing interface worked but it clearly wasn't a Facit terminal!

Re: what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?

[erlo]

On 11/28/2013 06:26 PM, 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?
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> 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
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Most of it was written in Ada - and the hardware and microcode was sort
of optimized for Ada (Bounds check, bit operations, type check).

The commands were Ada syntax.
I don't know if any is still in use, we ditched ours five years ago -
one of the ended up in a museum:
http://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Rational/R1000s400/Logbook


Erlo

Re: what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?

[Niklas Holsti]

On 13-11-28 19:26 , Martin wrote:
> On Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:12:13 AM UTC, johannes falcone
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>> 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?
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> 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
niklas holsti tidorum fi
      .      @       .

Re: what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?

[johannes falcone]

On Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:26:12 AM UTC-8, Martin wrote:
> On Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:12:13 AM UTC, johannes falcone wrote:
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> > On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:10:42 AM UTC-8, johannes falcone wrote:
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> 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?!...
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> -- Martin

cool stuff!