From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:07:37 +0200
Date: 2010-01-12T21:07:37+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100112210737.b9f45e9b.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.LNX.2.00.1001121617590.21744@Bluewhite64.example.net
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:21:23 +0000 Colin Paul Gloster wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Leslie wrote:
>
> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
> |"Shark8 wrote: |
> | |
> |> I was wondering if there would be any interest in coding up an |
> |> OS in Ada.
...
> |language to user for writing an OS. I'm not yet proficient in |
> |Ada, but would be interested in contributing what I can. |
> | |
> |Leslie" |
> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
>
> If the two of you are willing to implement an operating system in Ada
> then proceed and succeed! I wish you well. However, every few months
> or years hobbyists' projects for volunteers to develop an operating
> system in Ada not aimed at embedded targets have been proposed on this
> newsgroup without ever amounting to anything.
If creating i386/amd64 OS is too hard or big task, another alternative
is to target some embedded board. The easiest option is probably
AVR-Ada[1] and Arduino[2] or some other AVR board.
AVR-Ada works (almost) out of the box on many platforms and
Arduino board costs around 20 euros.
> Regards,
> Colin Paul Gloster
--
Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/
[1] http://sf.net/projects/avr-ada
[2] http://www.arduino.cc/
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2010-01-12 1:13 Writing an Operating System in Ada Shark8
2010-01-12 3:30 ` Leslie
2010-01-12 7:06 ` Shark8
2010-01-12 8:36 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-01-12 15:14 ` jonathan
2010-01-12 16:21 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-01-12 16:36 ` Shark8
2010-01-12 17:03 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-01-12 19:07 ` Tero Koskinen [this message]
2010-01-12 9:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-12 17:37 ` Shark8
2010-01-12 19:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-12 21:21 ` Shark8
2010-01-12 22:39 ` nobody
2010-01-12 22:50 ` Shark8
2010-01-15 22:45 ` nobody
2010-01-19 21:09 ` Shark8
2010-01-12 21:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-12 23:26 ` Shark8
2010-01-13 9:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-13 20:20 ` Shark8
2010-01-13 20:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-13 22:50 ` Shark8
2010-01-14 8:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 18:01 ` Shark8
2010-01-14 19:04 ` tmoran
2010-01-19 19:07 ` Shark8
2010-01-14 19:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 21:07 ` Shark8
2010-01-14 21:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-15 1:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-01-15 8:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-19 18:58 ` Shark8
2010-01-19 19:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 9:40 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-14 10:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 18:57 ` tmoran
2010-01-14 19:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 20:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-14 21:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 21:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-15 8:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-15 21:05 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-15 21:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-16 21:18 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-01-16 22:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-18 11:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-18 13:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-18 15:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-18 16:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-18 17:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-18 18:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-19 17:41 ` Writing an Operating System in Ada - now off topic? Leslie
2010-01-13 9:09 ` Writing an Operating System in Ada Georg Bauhaus
2010-01-13 9:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-13 3:38 ` Leslie
2010-01-13 12:10 ` Martin
2010-01-13 18:55 ` Ad Buijsen
2010-01-14 9:12 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-01-14 10:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 11:31 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-01-14 13:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-01-14 18:57 ` tmoran
2010-01-13 4:49 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-01-13 17:29 ` Lucretia
2010-01-13 20:37 ` Shark8
2010-01-16 0:13 ` Lucretia
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