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From: bglbv@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada?
Date: 1999/04/02
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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.