Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Well, I'd say "too ambitious in its current undertakings". If someone 
wanted to develop an OS in Ada, I'd suggest that they start by getting 
some kind of boot loader that would work on a garden variety PC. If you 
can't get a project moving along that far (and have a usable product as 
a result) then all the dreams of glorious user interfaces and networking 
and spiffy file systems, etc., are just that - dreams. If AdaOS had a 
development environment set up and a boot loader that could get a 
program into memory & cycling, they'd have A Good Start. From there, you 
could worry about all the additional interesting things that might be 
possible - and how to make some money on it as well. ;-)

MDC



rleif wrote:
> I agree that an Ada OS is too large a project. However, a real-time core
> that could be used with Linux and that had Ada interfaces to XML constructs
> should be viable. The problem with Linux core components is that one is
> making a donation to IBM, RedHat, etc. However, a POSIX type binding that
> could be used with Linux might solve that problem. An Ada version of Xforms
> that worked under SVG would actually cover many embedded devices. 

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