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, LOTS_OF_MONEY 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: 2001-09-04 05:35:09 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 (Innovate!) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:17:51 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9n2gpg$9mk$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 999605872 9940 136.170.200.133 (4 Sep 2001 12:17:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Sep 2001 12:17:52 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12686 Date: 2001-09-04T12:17:52+00:00 List-Id: I would agree that there is no particular point in recreating WinNT or Unix only with an Ada implementation. I would agree that radical thinking is in order (see earlier posts about Dodge Ram, P/T Cruiser, etc.) I'd offer only one caveat: If the thinking is *very* radical, it could make the project unworkable. This could either come from lack of adequate performance or just being so far from the beaten path that nobody understands it. (Suppose Dodge had decided to make the driver face backwards and view traffic thru a monitor. Radical, sure! But so far from what people are used to that it would be hard to get any acceptance.) So think radical, (dare I say "outside the box"? :-) but subject any & all ideas to sanity checks and proof of concept models. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "McDoobie" wrote in message news:talk7.76706$K6.30318377@news2... > > Alot of people think in terms of Unix or Windows when they think of a > Kernel. Why shouldn't one do something better. > > I'm thinking along the lines of Plan9 or Inferno, or similar to Progeny's > (on hold) N.O.W. Project. Ada seems ideal for this type of work. >