Re: Ada OS

[Peter Hermann <ica2ph@lucky.ihr.uni-stuttgart.de>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> > written in Ada to master all concerns of
> > all boot records including MBR and partitions, erroneous too,
> > in a reliable cautious preserving dialog with a (sysman) user.
>   I have parts of that but they are in Ada 83 to run under DOS.  An
> NTFS disk got corrupted and was totally inaccessible under Windows,
> but this program was able to find and copy many files.  Direct port IO
> and Int 16#13# calls from the DOS program did the trick.

surely another precious brick in the mosaic for Ada OS aficionados,
at least in terms of know how.

The dependency on DOS or Linux basic tools had to be retracted
more and more until Ada boots itself ... a far goal, of course.

This proverb comes to my mind:

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 How do you
  want it?

   Soon
   Good
   Cheap

 Pick two!
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