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From: Bob Broderbund <bbroderbund@broderbund.com>
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Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA?
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:49:05 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-08-22, Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> On 22/08/2016 07:01, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>> Le 22/08/2016 ?? 02:18, Andrew Shvets a ??crit :
>>> What would you consider to be a well designed operating system?
>>
>> VMS! :-)
>
> Yes, VMS was likely the best OS ever.

Close.. try another permutation of the same letters!

Hint: it's the oldest OS still in development and production, and processes
95% or more of the world's financial transactions.

> But designing a new OS I would consider doing it really new. No I/O, no 
> files, only memory mapped persistent properly typed objects.

The problem then is getting applications to run on it.

Bob