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-Thread: 103376,ee887b7593f7961b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!130.59.10.21.MISMATCH!kanaga.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.ip-plus.net!newsfeed.ip-plus.net!news.post.ch!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS based on Minix3 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:32:30 +0100 Organization: Swisscom IP+ (post doesn't reflect views of Swisscom) Message-ID: <4919431e$1@news.post.ch> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.41.146.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: atlas.ip-plus.net 1226392355 23105 194.41.146.1 (11 Nov 2008 08:32:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ip-plus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:32:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) In-Reply-To: X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w03duo.pnet.ch X-Original-Trace: 11 Nov 2008 09:32:30 +0100, w03duo.pnet.ch Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8376 Date: 2008-11-11T09:32:30+01:00 List-Id: Cedric.Lannock schrieb: > Do you think this would make this project doable? I was following the discussion for quite a while now and where left with and important questions which you should ask yourself: Which hardware should your OS run on? If you need to reboot your computer for every test run it will slow you down. The answer is also important if you want other to try out you work. BeOS only became slightly successful after it was ported to standard PC hardware. (Not that I like standard PC hardware all that much). Now, if I wanted to create an OS I would not target real hardware at all. At least not in the beginning. I would probably implement the OS inside a VMware virtual machine. VMware would mean that my OS could be tries out on a Windows / Linux / Mac OS System with out and repartition pain. Actually one could a ready made create VMWare payer image significantly reducing the try out or join the project hurdle. Regards Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com