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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada
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> If the two of you are willing to implement an operating system in Ada
> then proceed and succeed! I wish you well.

Thank you.

> However, every few months
> or years hobbyists' projects for volunteers to develop an operating
> system in Ada not aimed at embedded targets have been proposed on this
> newsgroup without ever amounting to anything.
>
> Regards,
> Colin Paul Gloster

I sort of figured that was the case; they probably get intimidated by
the sheer amount of work needing to be done for an OS. I'm not saying
I won't, but I do kind of expect it considering that I've been
inactively designing an OS in my head for years.