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From: Lucretia <Lucretia9000@yahoo.co.uk>
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On Jan 12, 1:13=A0am, Shark8 <onewingedsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if there would be any interest in coding up an OS in
> Ada. I don't mean taking an existing codebase and rewriting/converting
> it to Ada, but implementing it from the ground up. It's been a bit of
> a "for later" project for me to write an OS, although I did begin to
> write one in Turbo Pascal which got to the point of being able to
> recognize user-commands & (based on those commands) change the screen
> resolution. {And all using less than ten lines of inline assembly!}
>
> As time went on the project went on the back-burner and "later" never
> really came around, but in that meantime I was finishing up my degree
> in CS and came across Ada in my senior-level programming languages
> class. The design of Ada impressed me a lot and so I got myself
> Barnes's Ada 2005 book and started teaching myself. (So, in reality
> I'm pretty new to Ada, but I do come from a Pascal background and like
> the idea of having my compiler check things for correctness.)
>
> Anyway, I was wondering if anybody here would be interested in such a
> project.

Me too, I wrote a "hello world" kernel in Ada ages ago and posted it
up onto my blog site: http://www.archeia.com - it's a tad slow though
so will be moving my site over to a new one when I get around to it :D

I'll also be getting back to the OS (when I get around to it :D).

Luke.