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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,216b18d81cce4f75 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-01 19:42:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B183CB8.3EE396E7@engineer.com> Subject: Re: Ada Microkernel? Message-ID: <4nYR6.1524$v4.67644@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 22:41:04 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 02:41:04 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8005 Date: 2001-06-02T02:41:04+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B183CB8.3EE396E7@engineer.com>, B. Douglas Hilton says... >I'm I Debian Hurd hacker, and am thoroughly disgustapated >with the Mach sources. Recently I have been redoubling Out of curiosity, what's you problem with them? (I have never looked at them myself.) >Are there any sample microkernels written in Ada, perhaps >for oskit? I think a kernel would ultimately really benefit from >being written in such a robust language as Ada. I'd think the big issue would be getting acces to *any* microkernel sources. Adafiying things isn't really the hard part for someone who knows the language (its actually quite fun). >I know this is way out of my league, but I'm sitting here dreaming >about rewriting GNUMach in Ada. We're used to wild dreams here. I say keep 'em comming. One day one of them is bound to come true. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com