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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a402d78988bdf2b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-18 01:02:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-038-015.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: [announcement] SYSAPI and SYSSVC for Windows Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:08:54 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-038-015.arcor-ip.net (145.254.38.15) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071738159 6981447 145.254.38.15 ([77047]) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3528 Date: 2003-12-18T10:08:54+01:00 List-Id: amado.alves wrote: > [Windows vs. Linux] > > Just to prove why Windows is an *excelent* system--except for price. Try to install Windows over network! It is also amusing to install NT 4.0 on a relatively modern box. You will have a lot of fancy blue screens. > But > now it seems you'll have to pay for Linux too. RedHat starts at 179 > dollars I think. So there is still hope for AdaOS ;-) Well, an OO OS written in Ada sounds good. However, it would be rather difficult to do in a clear way without multiple inheritance and dispatch, full blown ADT, tagged tasks and protected types, light-weight smart pointers, reasonable sreaming and memory pools support. Ada just has started to catch it, but it has a long way to go. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de