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From: pmartin@alsys.com (Pascal Martin @lone)
Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
Date: 1996/08/03
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Date: 1996-08-03T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4tr8op$fvd@rational.rational.com>, rlk@pelton (Bob Kitzberger) writes:
>Pascal Martin @lone (pmartin@alsys.com) wrote:
>
>: One of the purpose of the OS is to provide tasking, so breaking the "egg and
>: chicken" problem imply prohibiting use of the tasking within the OS kernel
>: code. Not a big problem by itself, but a new set of tasking primitives will
>: have to be defined for kernel internal use. 
>
>Once you bootstrap the tasking kernel though, you can rewrite the
>tasking support using itself, though.
>
>:-) :-) :-)
>

You have programmed in Lisp most of your life, don't you ? :-) I cannot wait
for seeing a rational product implementing this Meta-Tasking concept !.

Pascal.