Re: [announcement] SYSAPI and SYSSVC for Windows

["Ekkehard Morgenstern" <ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> Try to install Windows over network!

There are toolkits supplied by Microsoft to permit remote installing.
If you know how to use them, it's no big deal.
 
> It is also amusing to install NT 4.0 on a relatively modern box. You will
> have a lot of fancy blue screens.

Windows NT 4.0 is an anachronism. Microsoft doesn't support it anymore, 
either. Even Windows 2000 is outdated. Windows XP is the way to go, it does
not only include all of Windows 2000 but also all of Windows NT (even the
OS/2 1.3 and POSIX subsystems exist in XP). 

> 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.

Ada 95 just has a different way of doing things. If you take your time to
understand them, you can use them effectively as well.

I bet the Ada 20xx standard that is in the works will add even more 
interesting stuff to the language.