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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada OS
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:34:52 -0600
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"Lucretia" <lucretia9@lycos.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Nov 22, 10:13 am, Peter Hermann <ica...@lucky.ihr.uni-stuttgart.de>
> wrote:
>
> > >From: "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com>
> > >Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
> > >Subject: Re: ada compiler?
> > >Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:37:27 -0600
> > >able to make an OS mechanism work "right".. (My holy grail would be an
> > >all-Ada system, but I realize that is not practical in the real world
for
> > >the vast majority of applications - including mine.)
>
> Thought it was this bit. I wonder why he thinks it's not all that
> viable.

Anon has it right: it is too large of a project to attempt (absent a
substantial community willing to work on it, and that would require having
real problems that need to be solved). Just running my all-Ada mail and web
servers would require a file system, TCP/IP (sockets) implementation,
bootstrap loader, keyboard and screen drivers, and task manager. (The latter
could be "borrowed" from the Janus/Ada runtime, but the others would need to
be built more-or-less from scratch.)

I once (when I was still in college, so this was a long time ago) created a
mini-OS in Ada (built on top of CP/M device drivers), but I never got much
further than the file system. And I probably had a lot more time and energy
then than I do now....

                      Randy.