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Subject: A Portable OS, Unix-Compatible, with Ada, runs on Z80, 8088, etc???
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 00:19:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 00:19:00 1984
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From:  Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE @ MIT-MC>

This outfit was in a SMALL booth, with NO machinery, but lots of slick
paper, at Winter Comdex.  Why they were in a small booth off one wall might
be interesting.

They claim the earth, and they have a Princeton genius who wrote all this.
They will have something to show Real Soon Now.  They were going to send
something to me, but they have not.

Robert Knight of Princeton is supposed to have written this.

Their chairman was a chap named Lombardo who seems more interested in
selling stock than shipping product; indeed, I have not see any product
other than pretty brochures an stock prospectuses.

I would LOVE it if this S1 system really works, and iof they really have
all the compilers they claim, but I note that the articles in Computerworld
and Systems and Software have "according to Knight" and "according to
Lombardo" disclaimers; no reviewer seems to have SEEN this work, only to
have heard that it either does work or will Real Soon Now.

Apparenlty Knight has good record in compiler work, but has UNCOL and
JOVIAL caught on?  According to Lombardo you can port all these languagez
to any machine in three months and then recompile and you have it; it all
sounds wonderful; but I kept wondering, where ws a machine that it ran on?
Why didn't they bring even one?  It all sounds great, and according to
computer systems news they raised 2.2 million bucks when they went public.
But they sure didn't look like a well financed outfit.  But they sure claim
great capabilities.