Re: ADA os talk

[Tony Gair <tonygair@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Hi all again,
    first I would like to thank you all for the critique, but several of you semi-displayed several assumptions which may not be necessary, first of all computers and os's take many shapes and forms and I would like to talk about a possibility of a ada kernal with a seamless ada applications interface/compiler which only really uses certain bits of hardware.
i.e. Network card, processor, and memory, maybe a hard disk.

(you could archive the input and output of said device on two listening servers)

The function ?
     well that would be telling ?

Regards
Tony Gair
 





On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 21:58:34 -0700
"Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com> wrote:

> From: Bob Leif
> To: Mike Silva et al.
> 
> Creating an Ada kernel permits a seamless Ada approach to the real-time part
> of a program. The compiler can both check and optimize the complete
> real-time code. This Ada kernel should NOT be a translation or the
> equivalent of a thin binding to the present Linux kernel. It should be a
> well designed Ada construct. An analogy is R&R CLAW, which very effectively
> hides the ugliness of Windows from the user. An Ada kernel should facilitate
> the use of Ada scheduling. The creation and testing of an Ada Linux kernel
> will greatly facilitate ports to other operating systems. It is conceivable
> that this could be a very profitable product.
> 
> This kernel together with a XML based GUI could be the Ada killer
> application for which we all have been waiting.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
> [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]On Behalf Of Mike Silva
> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 8:29 PM
> To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
> Subject: Re: ADA os talk
> 
> 
> Tony Gair <tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:<20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk>...
> > This is an area I've been watching for some time.
> >
> > And I suspect a lot of people are interested in this too.....
> >
> > I would be interested to know peoples strategies for getting one up and
> running and just to get the talk rolling heres my tuppence..
> >
> > Make a ada kernal and interface it to the rest of linux operating system
> by using c interfaces and then start writing the filesystem, drivers and X
> windows, blah blah....
> >
> > what do people think ???
> 
> How big is the Linux kernel?  How many calls?  While others may say
> there's no point in duplicating what already exists, I think it would
> be a a good small-steps approach (and thus more likely to actually
> happen) to getting some more Ada code and Ada awareness out there.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
>