Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics

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

A trick would be to be sure to scope the thing down to something 
achievable yet still useful. Start with something that might already 
exist - like MaRTE or RTEMS. Get it working on some common platform and 
get a project whos aim might be low enough that it can be achieved in 
spare time work by those who might be able to make use of it.

But it needs a certain amount of common vision and an objective to aim 
for. I'm not an OS designer by trade, but I know enough about it that I 
can tell someone needs to have some notion of where the thing is going 
or it will just meander or stagnate. It might help if someone has some 
kind of "Theoretical OS Book" that covered something other than an 
inside look at Unix or Windows - something that said "One day, an OS 
could be built that would look like this and offer these advantages over 
existing systems...." If that theoretical groundwork were done, it might 
make the basis for some hobyist project implementing the thing in stages.

MDC


Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> 
> Yep, but you need bodies of people willing to help. One or
> a few individuals can put together an operating system, but
> unless many people contribute towards hardward drivers, the
> project is not likely to gain general acceptance (at least
> on Intel). But even this, is an untested theory, in the
> Ada OS arena so far. ;-)


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