Ada OS based on Minix3

["Cedric.Lannock" <Cedric.Lannock@gmx.net>]

Hi all,

I came across Ada at the beginning of the year and read quite a few
books about Ada. A few month later I joined a Linux workgroup within a
local computer association. This way I learned about Ada and had a
look into Tanenbaum's book on operating systems (http://www.amazon.com/
Operating-Systems-Implementation-Prentice-Software/dp/0131429388/
ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226066518&sr=8-1) and Minix 3
(http://www.minix3.org/).

I thought about an operating system written fully in Ada. When surfing
the net I came across the various discussions about that subject.

What taking the Minix 3 system as basis for porting it to Ada? The
Minix 3 is a modern micro kernel os and has about 4.000 Lines of code.
It is full Posix compatible. Some guys have added real time
functionality to it (see ACM.org for further reading). Thus it would a
good place to start. As it has to few lines of code it should be
possible to build a kernel in overseeable time.

Another thought to get this project taking some speed would be not to
rewrite all the available C code but to develop a translator c2ada. It
would us getting startet and the resulting code could be enhanced and
improved.

Do you think this would make this project doable?

Regards

Cedric Lannock