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Marin David Condic wrote:
> > Its a shame - I'd love to see an Ada OS available for PCs, etc. However, I
> think that the project was just too ambitious to succeed. If it had the
> first objective being a simple, embedable OS to handle scheduling and I/O,
> it might have got to that level - then been able to progress from there. A
> good, solid, real-time executive would be a good place to start for a more
> robust PC-ish OS.

Have you had a look at tunis? It is an existing operating system written
in Ada.

I don't remember what hardware it runs on, but it would probably be
easier to port an existing OS than writing it from scratch.


Greetings,