Re: Ada OS Kernel features

["Brian Catlin" <briancatlin@mindspring.com>]

"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
news:OCbelAvsFWui@eisner.encompasserve.org...
> In article <9n4euv$t9m$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net>, "Brian Catlin"
<briancatlin@mindspring.com> writes:
> > What sort of features would be desirable/required in the kernel?
>
> > Symmetric multi-processing:
> >   This is the same capability general-purpose operating systems such as NT,
VMS,
> > etc. have.  Each processor is of the same type, and has the same view of
memory.
> > It then becomes irrelevant which processor is running a particular task.
>
> You leave out a lot of big systems if you don't support NUMA.

True, but how many people that would be participating in the implementation of
the Ada OS have access to such machines?  Supporting these machines initially
would require quite a bit of effort, and might be biting off more than we can
chew.  Perhaps adding support for them  later in the project would be better
(yes, I know that it will require lots of rework, but if the project is too big
initially, it will never get started)

 -Brian