Re: ADA os talk

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Interesting to note that AdaOS does not show up there. I suppose if there
was some actual concrete result to point to, pages like this might be
referencing the AdaOS site. Goes to show it is very important to have some
reasonably small and achievable goal there or nobody is even going to notice
that it exists.

I would agree that any effort at an Ada based OS should take a serious look
at what has gone before. Realizing that the goal is not pure research for
its own sake and that an OS cannot be all things to all users, the research
ought to have a fixed timeframe and a specific recommended direction. A
"Strawman" if you will - with a delivery date so that it doesn't turn into
"Gee... Let's go take a look at just one more OS project/book......" You
need to be able to say "Here's the basic concept, lets get started designing
subset X of that concept..." or you're looking at another debating society.

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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> wrote in message
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> I think a lot of people could benefit, just from seeing what has been
> "done before". For example, the following site lists several research
> papers on various O/S projects to date :
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>     http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/oses.html
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> Its surprising to see how many ideas that you thought
> were original, which already have been researched by
> someone else ;-)
>