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From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: hypothetical question
Date: 5 Jul 2001 11:51:42 -0500
Date: 2001-07-05T11:51:42-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cScfJwUl$Roy@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3b448a6d@news.iprimus.com.au

In article <3b448a6d@news.iprimus.com.au>, "Karl Fitz" <vampyre_16@hotmail.com> writes:
> in my random thoughts as a 'newbie' programmer,
> I begin to wonder the possibillity of creating an Operating System entirely
> with ada. Or would it be better to use a variety of programming languages...
> many questions arise from this but it intruiges me,
> would it be more/less, stable (as a compasion to other Os) ?
> ''           ''              ''       , resource hungry.... ?
> Im sure that it is entirely possible but i guess the real question is ....
> would it be practical ?

It would certainly be practical, but the initial creation would not
be any cheaper than creating a new operating system in _any_ language.
The cost of creating an operating system is extremely high - ask
Microsoft or IBM.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-05 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3b448a6d@news.iprimus.com.au>
2001-07-05 15:53 ` hypothetical question Ted Dennison
2001-07-05 16:51 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2001-07-05 16:10   ` Al Christians
2001-07-06  1:05   ` B. Douglas Hilton
2001-07-06 14:14     ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-06 21:41   ` Bobby D. Bryant
2001-07-07 10:54     ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-05 18:01 ` chris.danx
2001-07-05 21:51   ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-06 10:32     ` chris.danx
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