Re: Ada Operating System

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

James Ross wrote:
> Isn't this the "Ada Way"? Make sure your interfaces ( aka .ads's) are
> near perfect to begin with... then design and redesign the rest down
> the road.  

Well, what I meant was that the ".ini" interface (for example) now
writes to the registry instead. So the interface was sufficiently good
when it was written that it could be carried over for a decade, but it
still doesn't put everything in one place/one file/etc.

> Of course were talking about a full fledged OS with a new native file
> system (that I suggest be based on relational database model) 

Well, if it's based on the relational database model, then you don't
even *have* files to worry about being in the wrong place. :)

I suggest perhaps you look at the PalmOS, which basically is a
database-oriented file system where you have to do the right things and
put the right configurations in the right places to make things work.
Just as one possible source of ideas.

Another possibility is to ditch the whole concept of persistant storage
being different from "RAM" storage, and (say) have various protected
objects serve as the file system. Then you can say things like "this
protected object maps application identifiers to configuration records"
and not worry about *how* the system maintains persistance thereof.

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