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: 2003-08-09 07:00:54 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: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 10:00:41 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3F34FE89.8090502@noplace.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b3.43 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 9 Aug 2003 14:00:53 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:41279 Date: 2003-08-09T14:00:53+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================