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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: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 08:36:29 +0000 (UTC)
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Date: 2016-08-23T08:36:29+00:00
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On 2016-08-23, Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 5:50:22 PM UTC-6, John Smith wrote:
>> On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 5:49:07 AM UTC-4, Bob Broderbund wrote:
>> > On 2016-08-22, Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbo......kov.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
>> 
>> What's that?
>
> MVS, maybe.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS

We have a winner :-)

Bob