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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: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:11:56 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-08-24, already5chosen@yahoo.com <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I see nothing new here relatively to what was available for decades, both
>  in commercial/supported form (Stromasys Charon-Vax and Charon-AXP) and in
>  free/unsupported SIMH. 

It's not really correct to say SIMH is unsupported. A lot of issues that
arise in SIMH are fixed very quickly and they have enough talent (including
the one of the original DEC engineers who has microcode) to do
anything. That is not necessarily true of the for-sale versions.

Bob