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-Thread: 103376,de4046858a88bacb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.germany.com!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!not-for-mail From: Peter Hermann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:13:14 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: References: X-Trace: infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de 1195553594 9003 141.58.7.20 (20 Nov 2007 10:13:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:13:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.9.2-20070201 ("Dalaruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.18-5-686 (i686)) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18524 Date: 2007-11-20T10:13:14+00:00 List-Id: 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: ____________ How do you want it? Soon Good Cheap Pick two! ____________