Re: ADA os talk

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

Why not set a goal of a kernel that handles scheduling of processes & tasks
on from one to N processors? Presume that you have memory and some device
from which the kernel can boot. Presume that it needs to execute at least
one application (what ultimately becomes the API - maybe device drivers?) in
"privileged" mode. Get it that far and the rest is a bunch of add-ons. You
need one or more boot loaders that would be capable of loading the kernel
from some variety of devices - hard disk, floppy, EEPROM, Ethernet, UART,
whatever.)

You could add network card support and anything else that looked like it
might be stuff-that's-cool gradually & tailor it to the needs at hand. The
main thing being that you've now got a kernel that a hobbyist can use to
load and execute programs. What else gets added on is up to the hobyists.

As for telling? Whisper and we promise not to say anything... :-)

MDC
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"Tony Gair" <tonygair@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:20010829113230.0ae3febd.tonygair@blueyonder.co.uk...
> Hi all again,
>     first I would like to thank you all for the critique, but several of
you semi-displayed several assumptions which may not be necessary, first of
all computers and os's take many shapes and forms and I would like to talk
about a possibility of a ada kernal with a seamless ada applications
interface/compiler which only really uses certain bits of hardware.
> i.e. Network card, processor, and memory, maybe a hard disk.
>
> (you could archive the input and output of said device on two listening
servers)
>
> The function ?
>      well that would be telling ?
>