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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Microkernel?
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 09:11:36 +0200
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Ted Dennison wrote
>I'd think that would be a horrible disadvantage on the PC platform. Folks
are
>going to want to be able to boot off of SCSSI devices, CDROM drives,
Floppies,
>ZIP disks, LS-120's, PCMCIA drives, firewire drives, and whatever else they
may
>invent next week. Its OK to not support all that stuff at first, but it
should
>be doable.

You misunderstand. It is only the very basic kernel which is written in
assembly language. Not the device drivers, etc.

Greetings,