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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tjerick@ibm.net Subject: Re: Ada student homework ?[OS/2 Comments] Date: 2000/11/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 693184822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> <3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com> <3A0A2E53.DD650D8A@ix.netcom.com> <3A0A6B56.7437E9E7@cadwin.com> <3A0B68EF.A06B276D@ix.netcom.com> <3A0BB50B.96F77015@cadwin.com> <3A0BEAC7.5BC70E0@cadwin.com> <3A0BFA4A.5FA9D365@erols.com> <3A0C03BE.C3216454@cadwin.com> <8ujp12$3vk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0FCBAD.824095C6@cadwin.com> <8uos3l$q6h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8up1ht$upu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: news0.telusplanet.net 974144346 142.59.200.52 (Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:39:06 MST) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:39:06 MST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:32:12, gdemont@my-deja.com wrote: > Robert Dewar: > > > Yes well not crashing "so much" is a reasonable criterion > > in the Windows world, but in the world of reliable > > operating systems (e.g. OS/2) crashes are rare or non-existant > > no matter what you are doing. > > Maybe there is not enough bad software that make it crash. > Is there something like Norton Antivirus (in "active" mode) that > lowers the system's reliability almost like a real virus ?... > > > Now not everyone needs this > > reliability, but it is not suprising that OS/2 tends to be > > the OS of choice for PC driven ATM's over windows for example. > > The nice thing for OS/2 would be to add the Win32 compatibility. > A friend told me there is Win-OS/2 that emulates Windows 16-bit > with half the code, but what about Win32 ? > Ahh, a chance to weigh in, Yes there is work going on to run Win32 apps on OS/2. This is a user-level effort called Project Odin and is being watched but not funded by IBM. There has been some real succes such as getting Realplayer 5 to work, Adobe Distiller to work, and some others as well. A large effort but one that hopefully will turn out a good product for OS/2 users in the end. Rumour has it that IBM had a similar project that was halted when they sold their soul to M$. Interestingly, with the recent merge of the Warp Server Kernel to the Client kernel, much of the memory addressing restrictions have been lifted. [ie: greater than 512MB]. I would dearly love to know what IBM has been up to in their back rooms! Tim Erickson PS How about a release of GNAT > 3.12 for OS/2?