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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f45b1f6d53ecbae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: rlk@pelton (Bob Kitzberger) Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada Date: 1996/08/01 Message-ID: <4tr8op$fvd@rational.rational.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171487350 references: <2.2.32.19960715224930.00680d94@mail.cts.com> <4shjeg$5jk@herald.concentric.net> <4sr4qc$2g5@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <31F37B86.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com> organization: Rational Software Corporation newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Martin @lone (pmartin@alsys.com) wrote: : One of the purpose of the OS is to provide tasking, so breaking the "egg and : chicken" problem imply prohibiting use of the tasking within the OS kernel : code. Not a big problem by itself, but a new set of tasking primitives will : have to be defined for kernel internal use. Once you bootstrap the tasking kernel though, you can rewrite the tasking support using itself, though. :-) :-) :-) (a little Ada compiler/kernel implementation humor... _very_ little!) -- Bob Kitzberger Rational Software Corporation rlk@rational.com http://www.rational.com http://www.rational.com/pst/products/testmate.html