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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5bcf30769d6d9599 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-26 20:28:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: mjsilva@jps.net (Mike Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA os talk Date: 26 Aug 2001 20:28:55 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5267be60.0108261928.3e4ac506@posting.google.com> References: <20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.239.196.245 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 998882935 15787 127.0.0.1 (27 Aug 2001 03:28:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Aug 2001 03:28:55 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12448 Date: 2001-08-27T03:28:55+00:00 List-Id: Tony Gair wrote in message news:<20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk>... > This is an area I've been watching for some time. > > And I suspect a lot of people are interested in this too..... > > I would be interested to know peoples strategies for getting one up and running and just to get the talk rolling heres my tuppence.. > > Make a ada kernal and interface it to the rest of linux operating system by using c interfaces and then start writing the filesystem, drivers and X windows, blah blah.... > > what do people think ??? How big is the Linux kernel? How many calls? While others may say there's no point in duplicating what already exists, I think it would be a a good small-steps approach (and thus more likely to actually happen) to getting some more Ada code and Ada awareness out there. Mike