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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Progress on AdaOS
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In article <9m5p45$7q9$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> My feeling is that one useful product distinction that could be built into
> an OS for a PC type of machine would be some kind of selectable realtime
> mode of execution.

Matching the strongly typed tradition of Ada, I think an operating
system should have strongly typed files, as discussed in:

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q3/metadata/metadata-1.html

For those who have better things to do that follow links, it discusses
file metadata and overloading, and particularly whether the datatype
for files is a first class element of metadata or is overloaded onto
the filename.  Naturally the datatype of a file is not Integer vs.
Float, but something like Photoshop Project File vs. Marin's Rocket
Results.