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-Thread: a07f3367d7,dea2d62ab1462538 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder1.news.elisa.fi!uutiset.elisa.fi!7564ea0f!not-for-mail From: Tero Koskinen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada Message-Id: <20100112210737.b9f45e9b.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> References: X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-unknown-openbsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:07:37 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.186.120.192 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.com X-Trace: uutiset.elisa.fi 1263323259 80.186.120.192 (Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:07:39 EET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:07:39 EET Organization: Elisa Customer Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8710 Date: 2010-01-12T21:07:37+02:00 List-Id: 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/