I have not looked at tunis. Never even heard of it. I've heard of RTEMS -
something that borders on being a good start for such a project, but I've
never dug into it deep enough to know if it is really suitable.

I'll see what Google has to offer.

MDC
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"Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei@online.no> wrote in message
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> Marin David Condic wrote:
> > > Its a shame - I'd love to see an Ada OS available for PCs, etc.
However, I
> > think that the project was just too ambitious to succeed. If it had the
> > first objective being a simple, embedable OS to handle scheduling and
I/O,
> > it might have got to that level - then been able to progress from there.
A
> > good, solid, real-time executive would be a good place to start for a
more
> > robust PC-ish OS.
>
> Have you had a look at tunis? It is an existing operating system written
> in Ada.
>
> I don't remember what hardware it runs on, but it would probably be
> easier to port an existing OS than writing it from scratch.
>
>
> Greetings,