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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Ada OS Kernel features
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 12:15:07 +0200
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Brian:

> Processor architectures:
>   What sort of processor architectures should be supported?

IA32, HP-Alpha (or whatever it is called today) and m68k (I
think that's all I have in my office at the moment ;-).
Sparc would be cool because of the open Sparc clone from
ESA.

> Synchronization primitives:
>   How will tasks synchronize with each other?  Synchronization of tasks within
> the same process can use existing Ada methods; but what about tasks in different
> processes, or on different processors?

Entries and protected types should, if it is possible, be
supported on the OS level (but I don't know how).

> What about application written in
> languages other than Ada?

Think about that later.

Jacob
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