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Subject: Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain
From: Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org>
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so again this is just brainstorming. Might be useless....

So yes, Ada is not C and the runtime needs more. Does anyone think it might=
 be possible for the community to come to some sort of near agreement on so=
me ultra minimal OS/RTOS that would provide the needed functionality to imp=
lement all the Ada features but contain nothing else. This would sort of be=
 a micro-kernel for embedded space that more facilities including full size=
 operating systems would be built from.

I am interested in Minix3 these days. I don't really know anything yet but =
from what I understand it's kernel is only 10K lines of code. There is an A=
RM port getting close to being ready. It's not a RTOS by default though, th=
at might kill the suggestion. It is however designed to be fault tolerant, =
which sounds like a nice pairing with Ada.

A common base of some sort, would give us all some direction. Maybe Minix3 =
is totally wrong but something like this might help us all organize under "=
one flag". Those who wanted to scale up to something half way to a full siz=
ed OS could and of course those who already need a full size OS are already=
 satisfied and could skip this.