Re: ADA os talk

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

As we discussed elsewhere, I really liked your notion of XML for the GUI
because you instantly get a wealth of tools capable of acting as the GUI
builder & all you need is some sort of integration between actions in the
XML world and the application behind it. You get 80%-90% of the way there in
one transaction.

The other idea I liked was basing the file system on URLs and related
technology - again to get most of the way there in one swell foop.

I'd still push for something that was very minimal and just capable of
booting & getting at least one minimal app up and running. If the kernel
could boot and start scheduling an Ada app, you could add the device
drivers, the GUI the file system, the OS calls, etc. etc. etc. as you went
along. Get it that far, and then there's enough there to start the synergy
needed to move it along.

MDC
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"Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.998937940.27088.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> From: Bob Leif
> To: Marin David Condic et al.
>
> The XML part will be discussed at the SIGAda 2001 XML Ada Symbiosis
> workshop. I should note that the output devices: screen and printer could
> take XML including SVG (vector graphics) as their input. This would
> significantly erode the Microsoft monopoly.
>