From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: OS in Ada
Date: 1999/03/06
Date: 1999-03-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7brerq$gb9$3@plug.news.pipex.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7boa3e$1nc$1@ffx2nh3.news.uu.net
Amusingly, I am, in fact, planning to do almost what William V suggests
(except with a better OS design :-) except that I'm only going to create: a
kernel; some other bits of low-level software (including an Ada/C++
compiler). Even that's big enough. The rest of the system will be built
from existing software.
The theme of the compiler and OS will be "speed to the max" (and also
well-exposed operation). The core of the kernel will be written in Assembly
(everything else in Ada).
The only problem is: it will probably take me several years to get the
compiler ready, never mind the OS! Nevertheless, I am going to do it,
barring accidents, however long it takes.
Man-hours are well known as being mythical, but if there is anyone really
loony (and I mean REALLY loony) enough, I would happy (ecstatic!) to have
collaborators, even thousands of them!
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Nick Roberts
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1999-03-05 0:00 Printing Enum Willliam V
1999-03-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
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