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From: Leslie <jlturriff@centurytel.net>
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Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:30:46 -0600
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Shark8 wrote:

> 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.
        Interestingly, I was just thinking last week while reading John
Barnes' /Programming in Ada 2005/ that Ada would be a fine
language to user for writing an OS.  I'm not yet proficient in
Ada, but would be interested in contributing what I can.

Leslie