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: 103376,9a2decf40100af04 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone.austin.rr.com!news.rr.com!tornado.texas.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Rod Haper User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaOS on hiatus? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:44:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.174.115.120 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: tornado.texas.rr.com 1129329870 24.174.115.120 (Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:44:30 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:44:30 CDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5665 Date: 2005-10-14T22:44:30+00:00 List-Id: Freejack wrote: > I've been surfing the adaos.net website looking for docs and maybe some > preliminary source code. I havent had much luck. Has anyone done any work > on the project yet? > > I've been contemplating writing my own kernel in Ada(using an exokernel > rather than a microkernel design.) But I'd rather jump in on a project > already in motion. > > Any news? > > Freejack > Although it it not in Ada, you might be interested to know that Trevor Parscal has just started a D-language project named Titan to write an exokernel based OS in D. See the threads "Operating System in D" and "Titan" on the D-language d.D forum at news.digitalmars.com and the project homepage on dsource.org: http://www.dsource.org/projects/titan/ The exokernel OS methodology [http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/exo.html] is an interesting departure from the traditional monolithic and microkernel-based OS archetectures. --- Rod