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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-27 18:40:47 PST Message-ID: <3C7D983E.6050406@users.sf.net> From: Dave Poirier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:38:54 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.94.42.23 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1014863934 65.94.42.23 (Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:38:54 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:38:54 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20547 Date: 2002-02-27T21:38:54-05:00 List-Id: Ken Pinard wrote: > About 12 years ago there was a computer OS called Biin. It was a joint > effort by Intel and a German company. It worked great, distributing Ada > Tasks across multiple processors in the box. Unfortunitly it was ill timed > and did not prosper. The OS it self ran well. > > Ken Pinard > > "Dann Corbit" wrote in message > news:a4u9d00vqe@enews2.newsguy.com... > >>Has anyone tried to build a complete operating system in Ada? Does anyone >>know of a paper or URL for such an effort? >>-- >>C-FAQ: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html >> "The C-FAQ Book" ISBN 0-201-84519-9 >>C.A.P. FAQ: ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Chess%20Analysis%20Project%20FAQ.htm The Biin/OS is indeed very interesting (google is your friend), I wonder if the sources could be had or made open source, this could be very interesting for the Ada community. EKS - Dave Poirier