Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language)

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Give a lot of thought to the device driver model. You'd like it to be as
dynamic as possible. Ultimately, you'd like for the end user to plug in
a new device and just plain have it work - but that would require
support within the hardware and may not be possible in the PC
architecture. But whatever you can do to minimize the need for the user
to mess around with installing and selecting drivers is going to be a
plus for the OS.

MDC
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Nick Roberts wrote:

> 
> Currently, I plan to write 'native' device drivers (in Ada) for AdaOS. I
> intend to go to the original hardware documentation wherever posisble, and
> write the drivers properly. I don't think it's unfair to suggest that most
> device drivers (even commercial ones) tend be of remarkably poor quality.
> 
> Nevertheless, it would be really handy to provide compatibility layers that
> would allow existing device drivers to be used. At some stage, maybe we
> will have a go at this.
>