From: erlo <erlo@valid.not>
Subject: Re: what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:01:39 +0100
Date: 2013-11-28T20:01:39+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l783uj$tg3$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ffbf70f2-633f-4b05-be14-aae9f81b5a21@googlegroups.com>
On 11/28/2013 06:26 PM, Martin wrote:
> On Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:12:13 AM UTC, johannes falcone wrote:
>> On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:10:42 AM UTC-8, johannes falcone wrote:
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>> has anyone attempted a bsd ro linux ish posix ish os or even something new in pure ada?
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> I think the old Rational R1000s were written in Ada...they were amazing terminals with a command line OS with an Ada-like shell! Wonder if there are any still in use?!...
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> -- Martin
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Most of it was written in Ada - and the hardware and microcode was sort
of optimized for Ada (Bounds check, bit operations, type check).
The commands were Ada syntax.
I don't know if any is still in use, we ditched ours five years ago -
one of the ended up in a museum:
http://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Rational/R1000s400/Logbook
Erlo
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2013-11-27 15:10 what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs? johannes falcone
2013-11-28 7:12 ` johannes falcone
2013-11-28 15:56 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2013-11-28 17:26 ` Martin
2013-11-28 18:26 ` Simon Wright
2013-11-28 19:01 ` erlo [this message]
2013-11-28 19:49 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-12-05 7:21 ` johannes falcone
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