From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ae711c481a7059 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-09 07:26:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Can I treat Current_Output as a file of bytes? Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 15:26:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <20021104233454.2042ef78.bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> <20021108010337.395c1a90.bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> <8qGdDEJ$BoYu@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1036855567 7807 129.241.83.78 (9 Nov 2002 15:26:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 15:26:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30649 Date: 2002-11-09T15:26:07+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > already been done, to begin with, but if you insist, why Unix?) If someone > wants to rewrite some OS in Ada, then VMS would make an excellent candidate! http://www.openvms.org/ ? I don't want a rewrite of Linux in Ada. I would want something better. It would be nice *if* the OS is intended for desktop, to be able to run the applications of Linux. If it is a server OS, then it would be better if it was made to run forever and withstand cracking attempts. Not that the two are mutually exclusive. Preben -- Preben Randhol ------------------------ http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- �There are three things you can do to a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.� - Justine, by Lawrence Durrell