Re: VMS

On 6/14/25 7:27 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:30:34 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:
 

You meaybe thinking of Redox OS https://www.redox-os.org/

 That name is obviously meant to be a kind of word play on “Rust”. As I
recall from my high-school chemistry lessons, a “redox reaction” is one
where one reactant is “reduced” (gains electrons) while the other is
“oxidized” (loses them). This may or may not involve actual oxygen atoms
(which are notorious eaters of electrons), but the concept has been
generalized from that.
 The slight irony is that the name “Rust” does not come from the well-known
redox reaction that iron undergoes with water in the presence of oxygen
(catalyzed by a little bit of polar contaminants such as common salt), but
from the name of a kind of fungus.

   "Fungus" ??? TOO CRUEL !
   Rust is perfectly OK ... but I don't see much advantage
   over plain 'C'. Lots of 'new langs' are like that, just
   'C' with nastier syntax.