Re: Ada 95 based RTOS

[xaplos@my-deja.com]

My intentions are not to bad-talk Ada in any way - I'm already convinced
its a superior language than C/C++. Your absolutely right in that the
specific requirements for any project (especially an RTOS project)
rarely can be met with an off-the-shelf product. It's just nice to have
some source code available as a reference (especially as a newbie to
Ada) when beginning a new project rather than starting from scratch.

There are several books available on embedded programming that discuss
C/C++ which is really nice for a beginning programming to use as a
starting reference. Even though these books probably won't discuss the
particulars of your project, it's still a nice reference. I just think
having access to Ada sources for low level system programming - like an
RTOS - will help beginners like myself become more familiar with the
capabilities of Ada.

I'm planning on devoting about a 1 to 2 years (probably will be much
more but my wife will kill me if I don't get out of school soon) working
on an open-source OS written entirely in Ada for wireless devices
(similar to the Palm OS, Windows CE, Epoc OS, etc.). I'd like the entire
project to be based on Ada from the low-level kernel and memory
management all the way to the programming API and GUI. I strongly
believe Ada is a perfect language for these types of consumer appliances
for obvious reasons. I don't expect to find any RTOS that will meet my
all of my requirements for this project; however, having access to the
Ada sources for RTEMS would be a great starting point.

In article <88umb5$c5p$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> In article <88ugrd$7j7$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   xaplos@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > how Ada is superior to C/C++ in design and safety. I'm currious if
> > someone can explain why there are so many RTOS based on C/C++ and
> > "none" (I mean easily and freely available) based on Ada. With Ada's
>
> How many RTOS's are there in *any* language that fit your criteria?
Two
> maybe? The fact that you can't easily find freely-available sources
for
> a particular language for either of those two RTOS's can hardly be
taken
> as having some statisticly significant meaning.
>
> --
> T.E.D.
>
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