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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-06 15:22:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!not-for-mail From: David Starner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS talk (was: Progress on AdaOS) Date: 6 Sep 2001 21:00:17 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9n8o51$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <9n2jcd$b50$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9n3h11$9ic1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <9n7vfh$nq6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e5129.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12851 Date: 2001-09-06T21:00:17+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:59:11 -0400, Marin David Condic wrote: > I certainly wouldn't want to ignore the file system. What I'm suggesting is > that you could get a useful piece of an OS built without designing the file > system initially. To the extent that a Boot-Loader/Kernel/Core would need to > load programs to run, you'd have to connect to a file system of some sort, > but you could hide that beneath a package spec & just simulate it with some > existing file system. Why would writing the code for some existing file system and the code to make that system look like you want be any easier then writing some simple file system that actually fits what you're trying to do? -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg