From: vsnyder@vanpcjpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Subject: Re: Operating System in Ada (was Ada --> C Translation)
Date: 1998/10/21
Date: 1998-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <70lrrc$mrp@netline.jpl.nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Oct12.072036.1@eisner
In article <1998Oct12.072036.1@eisner>, kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> In article <philip-ya02408000R1210980953070001@news.cs.uwa.edu.au>, philip@cs.uwa.edu.au (PC) writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> >> How about I hate guessing. I will wait for a an Ada OS to come along.
> >> Linux is (used to be anyway ) a one man project. Surely an OS can't be that
> >> hard to build.
> >
> > That's actually an interesting proposal... anyone undertaken a OS written
> > completely in Ada yet?
>
> The operating system that most people would think about copying first
> is Unix -- and that seems like a non-starter from its anti-Ada interfaces
> (null-terminated strings and the like). Yes it is possible to interact,
> but it is not in the "spirit" of Ada.
>
> What was the last totally new operating system to achieve prominence ?
> I suppose it was MS-DOS or MacOS. VMS, Unix, VM etc. all seem older.
>
> Larry Kilgallen
Multics was over 85% written in PL\1, so there's some precedent for writing
an OS in a higher-level language than PDP-11 assembler (also known as C).
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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 ` 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 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-30 0:00 ` dewarr
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 ` 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 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Van Snyder [this message]
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: Win CE target dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-13 0:00 ` 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
1998-09-20 0:00 ` Win CE target dewarr
1998-09-20 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-23 0:00 ` falis
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