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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA?
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:26:57 +0200
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On 24/08/2016 06:12, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 8/23/2016 3:43 AM, Bob Broderbund wrote:
>
>> VMS is a good OS but it's far behind MVS and seems to be suffering from a
>> loss of (management) direction and not enough cash. It probably started
>> going downhill when it moved from being owned and managed end-to-end by one
>> company to today where it is spread across two companies for software and
>> another one or two for hardware.
>
> btw,  It is possible now to run VMS on a PC (X86). There
> is A.V.T company that specializes in this using
> VirtualBox. I have not tried it
>
> http://www.avtware.com/vms-tru64

Do they support DEC Ada?

VMS was not only the best ever OS. It also had the best ever C, FORTRAN 
and Ada 83 compilers.

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