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From: Corey Ashford <yeroca@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada?
Date: 1999/04/02
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Chris Morgan wrote:
> 
> ken@world_nospam writes:
> 
> > I was thinking of rewritting NT2000 in Ada. Since I do not have the
> > source code for NT2000, I was thinking of first writing or finding
> > some sort of dis-assempler that will generate assempler code from
> > the NT2000 beta-3 binaries, (I have access to the machine code instructions
> > table for intel), and then using those, write the Ada packages to generate the
> > same assempler. This way, I can have NT2000 but in Ada.
> >
> > any interest?
> 
> If you generate the same assembler, not much.
> --
> Chris Morgan <mihalis at ix.netcom.com                http://mihalis.net
>      "Faced with the prospect of re-reading this book, I would rather
>       have my brains ripped out by a plastic fork"
>               - ZDNet author Charles Cooper on Bill Gates new book

I was thinking of doing the same sort of thing with CP-M/86.  Then I could
have wonderful CP-M but written in Ada!  Any interest?

- Corey

(doh!  it's after midnight on April 2nd... oh well)