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From: erlo <erlo@valid.not>
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Subject: Re: what do ada -erz think of plan9 from bell labs?
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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?!...
> 
> -- Martin
> 
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