From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Operating System in Ada (was Ada --> C Translation)
Date: 1998/10/13
Date: 1998-10-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6vvlkq$k68$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810121002380.15516-100000@shell5.ba.best.com
In article <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810121002380.15516-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> silly to do so since Unix users expect C APIs. OTOH, a complete new OS
> functionally similar to Unix/NT/VMS/AS4000/... in Ada would be an
> interesting research project. It can obviously be done, since Ada-95
> provides all of the capabilities of C, and much more. So, like Dale, I
As a (part-time) C.S. graduate student I suppose I'm in a position to take on
such a project, but I have to say I don't see what the value of it would be.
It might be somewhat interesting to folks here that it had been done. But why
would anyone else care in the slightest?
I picture the conversation going something like this:
Me : Hey, I just implemented my own Operating System!
Other person : Yeah? What's it do?
Me : Well....nothing really. But I wrote it in Ada!!
Me: : Hey. Wait! Where're you going?
For anyone really interested in toying with this, I have two references that
may be handy. "Operating System Design, The XINU Approach" by Douglas Comer
and Timothy Fossum implements and explains (and provides) the code for a
small Unix-like OS that will run on a PC clone. "The Oberon System" by (I
believe) Martin Reiser and Niklaus Wirth goes over the design and code for a
small Object-Oriented OS (and compiler!).
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-20 0:00 Win CE target William A Whitaker
1998-09-20 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-20 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-20 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-21 0:00 ` dennison
1998-09-21 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: " Stefan Helfert
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-10 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-10 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-13 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` PC
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Operating System in Ada (was Ada --> C Translation) Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-13 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: Win CE target Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Tasking/blocking system calls (was: Ada --> C Translation) Mats Weber
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: Win CE target Tucker Taft
1998-09-30 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-23 0:00 ` falis
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