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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.129.121.70 with SMTP id u67mr209358ywc.2.1471999835102; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:50:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.13.19 with SMTP id 19mr10601oti.15.1471999835067; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!c52no10555312qte.1!news-out.google.com!d130ni44887ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no12439859ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:50:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <19705580-c6d7-49cf-a830-a5707734071e@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=174.28.146.45; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.28.146.45 References: <79e591f0-3c3e-42b2-ad1f-3e59a031531e@googlegroups.com> <94756e03-7788-4032-a70b-3a0468fc3af9@googlegroups.com> <19705580-c6d7-49cf-a830-a5707734071e@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA? From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:50:35 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31529 Date: 2016-08-23T17:50:34-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 6:51:32 AM UTC-6, already...@yahoo.com wrote= : > 95% figure with regard to transactions sounds very questionable. Most lik= ely you made it up. Especially considering that there is no consensus defin= ition for "financial transaction". I don't know; there's a reason that the banks and insurance companies still= use COBOL -- if the numbers that the late Mr. Dewar gave in this video ( h= ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D0yXwnk8Cr0c ) are still correct then it's = quite possible that they're using MVS/zOS. (I read somewhere that mainframe= sails are essentially constant and the only reason that they've been [inco= rrectly] characterized as dying away is because those people are looking at= percent of "market-share" [even though it's ridiculous to classify the chi= p in a cellphone as in the same market as a high-end server].)