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From: dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov)
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Subject: Re: ADA os talk (Innovate!)
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 10:53:29 GMT
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On Sun, 02 Sep 2001 07:26:17 GMT, "McDoobie" <chris@dont.spam.me>
wrote:

>In article <20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk>,
>Tony Gair <tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> This is an area I've been watching for some time.
>> 
>> And I suspect a lot of people are interested in this too.....
>> 
>> I would be interested to know peoples strategies for getting one up and
>> running and just to get the talk rolling heres my tuppence..
>> 
>> Make a ada kernal and interface it to the rest of linux operating system
>> by using c interfaces and then start writing the filesystem, drivers and
>> X windows, blah blah....
>> 
>> what do people think ???
>
>Alot of people think in terms of Unix or Windows when they think of a
>Kernel. Why shouldn't  one do something better.

One should! Down with UNIX and Windows! Long live an OO Ada OS!

>I'm thinking along the lines of Plan9 or Inferno, or similar to Progeny's
>(on hold) N.O.W. Project. Ada seems ideal for this type of work.
>
>Anyone agree?

Agree.

Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov