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: 2001-08-29 07:37:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!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: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:15:50 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9miteo$t7r$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <20010829113230.0ae3febd.tonygair@blueyonder.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 999094552 29947 136.170.200.133 (29 Aug 2001 14:15:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Aug 2001 14:15:52 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:12551 Date: 2001-08-29T14:15:52+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- 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/ "Tony Gair" 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 ? >