From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Luke A. Guest Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA? Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 00:12:47 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <1871041781.492217869.888975.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> References: <79e591f0-3c3e-42b2-ad1f-3e59a031531e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: z7erjsN7LLtB/3hJm25thQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: NewsTap/5.1.8 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4zHaSRqJCBNruRJn/1tJ/ooDtno= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31311 Date: 2016-08-07T00:12:47+01:00 List-Id: > Back in the early 2000 I played a little with that idea and had managed > to compile a piece of Ada code that booted on an x86. There was also > another group trying to do an OS but they never managed to produce > anything except a few generic documents on their dream OS. Then I got a > kid and less time to spend on it. I also considered the fact that there > will be little interest of people in an OS that's build on Ada only for > the sake of Ada. People want OSes to play with or do things with, unless > you're at the university and have an OS project to work on. > A microkernel is still on my todo list, would've got further about 10-15 years ago when I had a ton of interest if gnat had the 5-7 lines it needed to build a bare metal compiler