From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e3feb606f668a7c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: xaplos@my-deja.com Subject: Re: Ada 95 based RTOS Date: 2000/02/22 Message-ID: <88uqme$fh8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 588519397 References: <88ilp7$bcm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38ADCA44.3B91BF6F@averstar.com> <88qli0$gvr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38B2A2A1.FDCDDFE7@honeywell.com> <88ugrd$7j7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <88umb5$c5p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x23.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 168.191.76.30 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Feb 22 20:14:11 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDxaplos Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.5; Mac_PowerPC) Date: 2000-02-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: My intentions are not to bad-talk Ada in any way - I'm already convinced its a superior language than C/C++. Your absolutely right in that the specific requirements for any project (especially an RTOS project) rarely can be met with an off-the-shelf product. It's just nice to have some source code available as a reference (especially as a newbie to Ada) when beginning a new project rather than starting from scratch. There are several books available on embedded programming that discuss C/C++ which is really nice for a beginning programming to use as a starting reference. Even though these books probably won't discuss the particulars of your project, it's still a nice reference. I just think having access to Ada sources for low level system programming - like an RTOS - will help beginners like myself become more familiar with the capabilities of Ada. I'm planning on devoting about a 1 to 2 years (probably will be much more but my wife will kill me if I don't get out of school soon) working on an open-source OS written entirely in Ada for wireless devices (similar to the Palm OS, Windows CE, Epoc OS, etc.). I'd like the entire project to be based on Ada from the low-level kernel and memory management all the way to the programming API and GUI. I strongly believe Ada is a perfect language for these types of consumer appliances for obvious reasons. I don't expect to find any RTOS that will meet my all of my requirements for this project; however, having access to the Ada sources for RTEMS would be a great starting point. In article <88umb5$c5p$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison 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. > > http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.co Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.