[Info-vax] [OT] Early 64-bit test build of Windows 2000 for Alpha found

[Dan Cross]

In article <u490md$qipd$1 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 5/19/2023 4:45 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> In fact about the only major idea he didn't bring across was the use of
>> Pillar (or something comparable) instead of C as the SIL.
>> 
>> We lost a major opportunity to establish a viable alternative to C because
>> of that and the security of our computing infrastructure is poorer because
>> of it.
>
>I would tend to agree.
>
>But there were a long period from late 80's to mid 10's
>where C was considered the only viable language for OS
>development.

Nonsense.

>NT was designed in (the beginning of) that period.
>Cutler decided to follow the trend on that one.
>
>Back in time "begin end" languages were not unheard of for
>OS development. Multics used PL/I, NOS/VE used Cybil,
>MPE used Pascal etc..
>
>And in recent years both the Linux and Windows teams are
>embracing Rust.
>
>But in between ...

...but in between lots of systems were implemented using C++
(K42, BeOS, Haiku, L4/Fiasco), Modula-3 (SPIN), Oberon (the
Oberon system), Ada, and on and on.  Even C# (Singularity,
Midori) was used.

	- Dan C.