From: bglbv@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada?
Date: 1999/04/02
Date: 1999-04-02T19:37:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lngau9c3.fsf@bglbv.my-dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k8vvu687.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com
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Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> ken@world_nospam writes:
> > 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?
> If you generate the same assembler, not much.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious.
Anyway, ken's suggestion reminds me of
(a) Jorge Luis Borges' story on "Pierre M�nard, author of Don Quijote";
(b) the explosive news broken to this group by M. Kempe three years
ago almost to the day that Windows TNT would be written in Ada.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-02 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-01 0:00 Linux Kernel in Ada? microbards
1999-04-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-01 0:00 ` ken
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-04-02 0:00 ` bglbv [this message]
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-02 0:00 ` ddutheza
1999-04-05 0:00 ` microbards
1999-04-05 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-04-06 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
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