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From: "John Duncan" <jddst19+@pitt.edu>
Subject: Suitability of ada environments for systems development
Date: 1999/07/02
Date: 1999-07-02T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7lis9r$oil$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu> (raw)

Hi all,

I am foreseeing an operating system project to occur in the near future.
This project will require development directly on the hardware, of course,
and will build the OS libraries and API. I understand how Ada works to
provide systems programming features, but I'm wondering how suitable each
individual tool is. I would like to write the majority of the OS in a
high-level language, such as Ada or EC++ (based on the quality of the tool,
really), and I was wondering how much operating system support is needed for
tasks and protected objects. The goals are reusability and retargetability.
I want to make the whole project very easily retargetable to any underlying
chip.

Do vendors provide library implementations of the normally OS-dependent
features such as tasking and protected objects? If so, could vendors please
mention how their tools help solve these problems? Good responses will
facilitate choice of platform for a number of users.

Thank you very much,

John






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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-02  0:00 John Duncan [this message]
1999-07-02  0:00 ` Suitability of ada environments for systems development David Botton
1999-07-02  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-02  0:00   ` John Duncan
1999-07-03  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-08  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-02  0:00 ` Marin David Condic
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