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: 103376,55958fd991db66fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-20 07:34:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D625351.70507@worldnet.att.net> From: Jim Rogers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:34:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.39.205 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1029854071 12.86.39.205 (Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:34:31 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:34:31 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28244 Date: 2002-08-20T14:34:31+00:00 List-Id: Ryan wrote: > An article on Slashdot reads > (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/18/2053259) > > "Brand Huntsman (the creator of the Bochs Front-End, among other obscure > things) has been developing an integrated language/operating system for > the past few years now. The Operating System is called BRiX, and it uses > a language called Crush, which is woven tightly into the core of the OS. > On his project web page (http://brix-os.sf.net) he has posted the source > code (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/brix-os/crush) to > his preliminary compiler, which runs in Linux and outputs optimized > assembly from Crush source code. The Crush language itself is heavily > influenced by Forth, LISP, and Ada, and provides strong typing and > extensive namespace security." > > An interesting quote from the FAQ on his site is > > "BRiX, unlike other modern operating systems, does not use hardware to > isolate and protect applications from each other. Instead, it uses a > single address space and relies on a safe-language to generate code that > will not access memory for which it does not own. This language also > handles many checks at compile-time that would be performed at run-time > in other operating systems." > > What effect might this have on the development of AdaOS? Competition? > Inspiration? It seems to have several of the same goals in mind. > > Ryan > If you look at Crush you will see it more closely resembles Lisp than Ada. I suspect this effort may provide some interesting ideas. It also will provide an example of an interesting OS that is largely ignored by the world. Jim Rogers