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From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/19
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Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> writes:

| "Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote:
| 
| > /* snip */
| > So the message is: Get some good applications and tools written in Ada before
| > comitting to an operating system.
| >
| > /*snip */
| 
| I don't see why the tools need to be in Ada, merely because the OS is.  If the OS

Huh? There is no OS written in Ada. The point Jensen was saying that
one should first make programs in Ada and then one could think of
making an OS later.

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Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/]     
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