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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5bcf30769d6d9599 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-27 11:16:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!157.161.139.35.MISMATCH!8904641!news.imp.ch!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA os talk Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:02:50 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9me20b$2h7$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk> <3B8A8073.6010503@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 998935371 2599 136.170.200.133 (27 Aug 2001 18:02:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Aug 2001 18:02:51 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12474 Date: 2001-08-27T18:02:51+00:00 List-Id: 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. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote in message news:3B8A8073.6010503@home.com... > > > 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 : > > http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/oses.html > > Its surprising to see how many ideas that you thought > were original, which already have been researched by > someone else ;-) >