From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/14
Date: 2000-01-14T13:33:18+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hfgg4w1w.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 387F0B20.2FC5F945@icn.siemens.de
Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de> writes:
| I think the spread of an (popular) OS is wider than that of any
| application (maybe except of Quake or Flight simulator). And this would
| show to the common, the use (and usability) of Ada for great projects.
| Ok, there maybe other large projects done in Ada, but most of them have
| a great disadvantage - they are secret.
Well how do you get the OS to become popular? Remember Linux was
started in 1991. I'm not so sure a new OS would be able to compete so
well against Linux. It would have to be able to run Linux apps and use
device drivers available for Linux. Otherwise not much hardware would
be supported. My point is that making an OS is a much bigger task than
making popular applications that people need and will use to do their
everyday activity. If they then want to change the app, they need to
learn Ada95 to do so, as the source code would be in Ada95. Thus one
could attract more people to Ada95.
--
Preben Randhol For me, Ada95 puts back
[randhol@pvv.org] the joy in programming.
[http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/] [http://www.gnuada.org/]
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-12 0:00 Project: FreeOS Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Juergen Pfeifer
2000-01-13 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-18 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Mario Klebsch
2000-01-20 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-01-22 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
[not found] ` <vhi3drwe773.fsf@grotte.ifi.uio.no>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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