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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
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Subject: Writing an Operating System in Ada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:13:55 -0800 (PST)
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I was wondering if there would be any interest in coding up an OS in
Ada. I don't mean taking an existing codebase and rewriting/converting
it to Ada, but implementing it from the ground up. It's been a bit of
a "for later" project for me to write an OS, although I did begin to
write one in Turbo Pascal which got to the point of being able to
recognize user-commands & (based on those commands) change the screen
resolution. {And all using less than ten lines of inline assembly!}

As time went on the project went on the back-burner and "later" never
really came around, but in that meantime I was finishing up my degree
in CS and came across Ada in my senior-level programming languages
class. The design of Ada impressed me a lot and so I got myself
Barnes's Ada 2005 book and started teaching myself. (So, in reality
I'm pretty new to Ada, but I do come from a Pascal background and like
the idea of having my compiler check things for correctness.)

Anyway, I was wondering if anybody here would be interested in such a
project.