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Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:

> On Friday, November 16, 2012 5:35:29 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> In this specific case, I'm not sure what use a DHCP client would be
>> useful for - getting IP addresses is something that has to be done
>> very early in a system's life and thus belongs to the kernel/OS and
>> not the application program. I could see if having use in an all-Ada
>> system but that's about it.
>
> I would love to see an all-Ada [general purpose] OS, with the caveat
> that the design is not "inspired by"/copied-from *nix.

What is it that you object to about Unix?