Re: Current status of Ada?


Many companies outside of the United States of America are running
operating systems which had been created before DOS. At least one of
the banks I am a customer of, for example.

At the desktop?

You seem to be under the misimpression that what you call "LINUX" is
an operating system. Dynamically linked binaries for one GNU/Linux
distribution are extremely unlikely to work for another GNU/Linux

"Extremely unlikely" is wrong, I think, especially for binaries that
have been compiled with the explicit aim to run on multiple Linux
distros. E.g. Open office and Nozilla have binary packages that run on
a wide range of current distributions.

distribution. They are different operating systems. Many things for
Microsoft Windows 98 will not run on Microsoft NT 3.51, but their
level of binary compatibility is far more than is common between
GNU/Linux distributions.

s/far//

That at least is true. But there is also less necessity for binary
compatibility in Linux than in the closed source world.

With any of GNU/Linux and Microsoft, a company would need to employ
someone who is competent at maintaining an installation, whose salary
would make the price of a Microsoft operating system insignificant.

Absolut nonsense. Furthermore people who need a full time employee to
maintain a Linux installation wuite likely need also someone to run
their windows installations.

At home, the operating system I mainly use is Microsoft DOS version
5. The money which was paid for it in the 1990s was for a permanent
license and I do not need to buy new software and hardware for it. It
works better than any of the other operating systems you mentioned in
this thread.

What does "work better" mean? Does it have better virtual memory
management? Does ist run picture processing programs like Gimp or
photo shop? Etc ...


Regards -- Markus
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