Re: Ada Operating System

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Its easy for a project to get so overly-ambitious that it fails to get
anywhere constructive. I think the AdaOS project is a really good idea, but
I think it needs to have some sort of phased goals/objectives that at least
bust the problem up into something achievable. You're right about it being
easy to get bogged down in design - sometimes its better to say "We'll burn
that bridge when we get to it!" :-)

If it were my gig, I'd look to getting some kind of bootable kernel going by
utilizing the Gnat compiler (just because its there and readily accessible
to the hobbyist). If it could boot off a floppy and do a little basic
scheduling & I/O so that folks could start playing with it, then it would
likely spark interest.

Of course, my bias would be to provide good realtime support for the
scheduler because I think that's an unaddressed (or insufficiently
addressed) niche by both Windows & Linux. If it could run on a PC and
provide the possibility of running at least one realtime process, it would
have something you don't get elsewhere. That's product distinction! :-)

MDC
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"James Ross" <rem.jr@rem.webross.com> wrote in message
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>
> My personal experience is I often get bogged down on the design of a
> new from scratch project. I am not very good at sitting down and
> planning it all out to last detail, especially a large project. When
> this happens to me there are two solutions.  Take a bottom-up approach
> and just start working on pieces that you know are going to be needed
> in some form, or start plagiarizing someone else's code.  (At least
> the latter is legal with GPLed code!)  Perhaps this is what is needed
> in the case of AdaOS?
>