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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-10 10:13:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!eusc.inter.net!news.eusc.inter.net!boavista.snafu.de!news From: Michael Erdmann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:20:12 +0200 Organization: http://www.snafu.de/~boavista Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.eusc.inter.net 1060535584 12271 213.73.71.142 (10 Aug 2003 17:13:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@eusc.inter.net User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41303 Date: 2003-08-10T19:20:12+02:00 List-Id: rleif wrote: > I agree that an Ada OS is too large a project. Any way, i have missed part of the thread. What do you mean in fact by an real time OS on top of Linux (which is a non relatime OS). A framework of components allowing you to control some external equipment in realtime or ? This could be interesting. Michael However, a real-time core > that could be used with Linux and that had Ada interfaces to XML > constructs should be viable. The problem with Linux core components is > that one is making a donation to IBM, RedHat, etc. However, a POSIX type > binding that could be used with Linux might solve that problem. An Ada > version of Xforms that worked under SVG would actually cover many embedded > devices. > > The Ada page of my web site, www.newportinstruments.com has articles on > how multiple individuals can get together for two noble causes: 1) > Spreading the use of Ada. And 2) Making money. > Bob Leif > > Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. > Email rleif@rleif.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marin David Condic [mailto:nobody@noplace.com] > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 4:52 AM > To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org > Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. > > An OS is a pretty serious project - even if you're looking at an > embedded OS of some sort. If you start with too big an objective, you'll > likely not achieve it. You might try taking some existing OS and porting > it. That would be a good start and might be achievable in a reasonable > time span. There was an RTOS out there written in Ada - RTEMS if I > recall the name correctly. One called MaRTE also springs to mind. Try: > > http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/457082.html > > MDC > > Luke A. Guest wrote: >> >> Well, for one, I have been (although not recently) researching operating >> systems and want to design one. I know what I want to achieve on this but >> I haven't actually been able to do any work on it for ages :-( >> > > >