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From: ddutheza@bu.edu (ddutheza)
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada?
Date: 1999/04/02
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In article <7e15bt$c9p@drn.newsguy.com>, ken@world_nospam says...
>
>>In article <7e0d36$i3m$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>>  microbards@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>> I have been casting about trying to find out if anyone is rewriting the 
Linux
>> kernel in a high level language, such as Ada.
> 
>I was thinking of rewritting NT2000 in Ada. Since I do not have the
>source code for NT2000, I was thinking of first writing or finding
>some sort of dis-assempler that will generate assempler code from
>the NT2000 beta-3 binaries, (I have access to the machine code instructions
>table for intel), and then using those, write the Ada packages to generate 
the 
>same assempler. This way, I can have NT2000 but in Ada.
>
>any interest?
>
>Ken 
>
There is a project that is called Freedows98 and is supposed to be able to run 
MS-applications. However, I do not know which code they are using but the 
system like Linux will be open source.
				Didier Utheza