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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 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: 2001-08-30 09:28:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news2.euro.net!news.euronet.nl!not-for-mail From: Serge Robyns Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA os talk Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:29:00 +0200 Organization: RC&S Message-ID: <9mlpjd$14t9$1@scavenger.euro.net> References: <9me5cm$3nv$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f6e2b77.0108290953.74c5a2ec@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-51-181.wanadoo.be Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: scavenger.euro.net 999188909 37801 212.65.51.181 (30 Aug 2001 16:28:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:28:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.6 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12595 Date: 2001-08-30T18:29:00+02:00 List-Id: B.Gaffney wrote: > "Marin David Condic" wrote in > message news:<9me5cm$3nv$1@nh.pace.co.uk>... >> 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. >> > Marin, I think you'd be interested in at least one part of the AdaOS > project (besides the high-level architectural discussions, etc. :-). > One of the members created a 'minimal' bootable floppy image back in > January. It's not even up the the level you describe, and I don't > know that anything has been done on it since (possibly because there's > no one there showing interest in what the next small step should be). > I've downloaded the sources, but have yet to get to looking into it. > > --Brian I was the guy who wrote that stuff. It didn't progess anymore as the drive inside the AdaOS community was close to nil. Only a few people had comments on it, but nobody wanted to take that base of work as a starting point. Also I didn't make much time available for it and I also managed to wiped out my harddisk. Because all of that I joined Federic Boyer on his ADX project (http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/projet-adx/). For your information, the code only boots an ada executable with a mini vga and keyboard driver full of bugs. But I needed it to see how to get from gnat 32bit code into a bootable kernel, play with interrupts and "see" something beeing done by the code (output to the vga console). Resently I grasped old sources back together (I had to pull my own sources back from the internet). Currently I'm trying to have plex86 back working. This allows me to test the kernel without need to reboot my system or use a secondary PC. Also in case of crashes plex gave me a good view on the content of the system at the time of the crash. It is not because I'm working on ADX I'm not not reading the AdaOS stuff. Some people are seriously trying to bring back life into the project. I'm still afraid that my goals and the goals set by the people in AdaOS are somewhat divergent. But if this would be the case, I still hope for cross exchange between the two projects. But my strong belief is that AdaOS need some people which want to have their hands dirty and get into plumbing the OS, I've the impression the list is more filled with watchers on one side and great dreamers on the other side. Also the requent absence of the project leader has been a nuisance for the project. If people want to play with that code they can get it from http://web.wanadoo.be/rc.s/ . Cheers, Serge Robyns