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On 25/07/2020 19:20, Andreas ZEURCHER wrote:
> On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 5:11:49 PM UTC-5, gdo...@gmail.com wrote:
>> is there a unix like OS written completely in Ada?
> 
> In 1981, there in fact was one that had 2 public releases with work in progress on Version 3:  iMAX-432, depending on how puritanical one wishes to be about what is or is not Unix-like.  (iMAX-432 was far more Unix-like than, say, MVS-like or CP/M-like.)
> 
> If anyone has an inside negotiating track at Intel (or the contracting firm that Intel hired to develop it), perhaps they would be willing open-source the old iMAX432 operating system that was released for the iAPX432 processor that was designed from the ground up to have an Ada-centric instruction set.

I guess it could be worthwile contacting Steve Lionel who recently 
retired from Intel after working for DEC, COMPAQ, HP, on Fortran 
compilers. He has a blog site, I'll not post the details here so as not 
to encourage automated spam. Doctor Fortran is his nickname.