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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5bcf30769d6d9599 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-29 03:32:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.224.25.10!sn-uk-xit-01!supernews.com!194.117.157.10.MISMATCH!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news1.cableinet.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tony Gair Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA os talk Message-ID: <20010829113230.0ae3febd.tonygair@blueyonder.co.uk> References: X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:33:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.31.154.215 X-Complaints-To: http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/abuse X-Trace: news1.cableinet.net 999081204 62.31.154.215 (Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:33:24 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:33:24 BST Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12550 Date: 2001-08-29T10:33:24+00:00 List-Id: 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." 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 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 > > >