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: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-08 04:51:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 07:51:30 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3F338EC2.3070002@noplace.com> References: <3F30F167.9070302@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b4.ef Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 8 Aug 2003 11:51:41 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41247 Date: 2003-08-08T11:51:41+00:00 List-Id: An OS is a pretty serious project - even if you're looking at an embedded OS of some sort. If you start with too big an objective, you'll likely not achieve it. You might try taking some existing OS and porting it. That would be a good start and might be achievable in a reasonable time span. There was an RTOS out there written in Ada - RTEMS if I recall the name correctly. One called MaRTE also springs to mind. Try: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/457082.html MDC Luke A. Guest wrote: > > Well, for one, I have been (although not recently) researching operating > systems and want to design one. I know what I want to achieve on this but > I haven't actually been able to do any work on it for ages :-( > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================