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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-18 04:42:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!news-in.superfeed.net!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died)) References: <3lIxa.13309$8g5.207727@news2.e.nsc.no> <3PJxa.13336$8g5.208066@news2.e.nsc.no> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 11:41:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.47.50 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1053258076 144.132.47.50 (Sun, 18 May 2003 21:41:16 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 21:41:16 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37487 Date: 2003-05-18T11:41:16+00:00 List-Id: Tarjei T. Jensen wrote: > I forgot the user authentication and access control stuff. You get the PC > into a NT domain and windows takes care of everything. It works better on > Netware of course. I was always disappointed when Apple dropped OpenDoc - apparently it was an excellent object model. I don't think anything has taken its place :-( BTW the unix I run on my mac has excellent support for printing, and lots of interesting other stuff. Perhaps you are comparing windows with the wrong Unix... (i'm not in love with unix - it seems very old in many ways, and it seems clear that the windows people must have learnt something - perhaps this is optimistic though). dale